Qafqazinfo.az — Mobile App
A news API and the iOS/Android app built on top of it — whatever the newsroom publishes on the site appears on the phone straight away.
About the project
After we rebuilt the Qafqazinfo.az website, the client wanted to offer readers a mobile app as well. Because the site already ran on the system we had built, we could hang the app off the very same content store.
The news API
We built an API that pushed every article published on the site through to the app: the news feed, the categories, search, and the full body of a single story. The moment an editor published on the site, the piece was live in the app too — there was no second content system to maintain.
The app
We wrote the app in PhoneGap, the right tool at the time, and shipped it to both iOS and Android from one codebase. For a news app that was the correct call: the content is web-based anyway, and writing two separate native apps would have doubled the budget for no reader-facing gain.
The app was handed over to the client. What is in the stores today is no longer the app we built — the client’s own team has carried it forward since.