iOS Application Development for Drones
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The customer, a leader in robotics, wanted to develop a new drone controlled by smartphone. They approached Mistral to develop an iOS app for the drone with photo/video capture, editing, transfer, and sharing features. Mistral designed the app to have a similar user experience to the iOS camera app. They developed the app using Swift and helped the customer finalize requirements. The solution enabled the customer to test drone hardware and improve media capture features ahead of schedule.
iOS Application Development for Drones
- 1. This case study showcases Mistral’s capability in designing and developing iOS application for drone control from a tablet or phone. Introduction A drone is a light flying robot with on-board sensors for imaging. It is more formally acknowledged as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Fundamentally, drones can be flown autonomously or be remotely controlled through software. Mistral has the expertise in designing low power, light weight electronics for drones and develop smartphone/tabletapplicationtocontrol/managethedrone. This case study showcases Mistral's capability in designing and developing iOS application to control the photo/video capturing, editing, transferring and sharing features of the drone. The iOS applicationisdesignedtoperformascloseaspossibletothein-built iOS camera application, to provide the user with a unified user experience(UX). Case Study iOS Application for Drones Development The Customer The Requirement The customer is one of the market leaders in robotics and has been making tethered drones for government and industrial applications. These drones were designedtooperateinalltypesofwindandweather. The customer was developing a new drone, which is designed to be controlled entirely by smart phone or tablet. The customer approached Mistral to develop an iOS application with following features: Photo/Video capturing Photoediting Videotrimming Transfer Photo/Video captured on the drone to phone Sharing the captured Photo/Video on social network : : : : : Filter option
- 2. ©Copyright 2016, Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. & ...Partners in Real Time are registered Trademarks and Logos of Mistral. All other Trademarks and Trade names are the property of the respective owners. www.mistralsolutions.com : : : : Wireframes were designed to freeze the look and feel of the application. Agile methodology was used to manage the project. Incremental release was made to enable the customer to get early release and testing. Independent verification and validation team was engaged in testing every release. Key Achievements Customer Benefits : : : : : Planned the Sprint releases along with the customer to understand the priority and made the quick releases. Enabled the customer to get a head-start in testing and fine tuning their drone hardware. Completedtheprojectaheadofplanwith2%defectslippage. Customer was part of the sprint planning, which gave good idea of the project progress and enabled the integration in a phased manner. The iOS application enabled the customer to fine tune and improve the response of media capture and download features of the drone. Live feed (video capture mode) Solution Provided Mistral developed an iOS application for their drone for camera capture, download the captured media to the phone. Mistral helped the customer to identify the right technology that enabled the rapid development of the iOS application. Followingaspectswerepartofthedevelopmentprocess: ThesolutionprovidedbyMistralincluded: Apple’s general purpose compiled programming language “Swift” which is more robust than Objective-C was used to develop the User interface & Objective-C wrappers were developed to integrate with the drone SDK. Mistral team helped the customer to finalize the requirements using the use-case specification document. : : Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., No.60, 'Adarsh Regent', 100 Feet Ring Road, Domlur Extension, Bangalore - 560 071 Tel: +91-80-3091-2600 Fax: +91-80-2535-6444 E-mail: info@mistralsolutions.com Mistral Solutions Inc., 43092 Christy Street, Fremont, CA 94538 USA Tel: +1-408-705-2240 E-mail: usa@mistralsolutions.com Branch Offices: INDIA ! Hyderabad ! New Delhi USA ! Dallas, Texas