A pet photo-album app that hangs your favorite four-legged companions in playful, curated frames — and a hands-on study in building for native iOS.
Waggy treats your pet's photos like art. Instead of a plain camera roll, each picture is displayed in a themed setting — pinned to a corkboard, framed on a gallery wall, wrapped in a holiday border, or hung over the living-room couch — with albums to organize it all.
Underneath the fun, Waggy had a serious purpose for me: it was a deliberate learning project — a chance to get hands-on with what building a native iOS app really takes, and to hold that experience up against Xamarin.Forms, the technology I've long considered my go-to for mobile.
I built Waggy end to end as a personal study — designing the playful display concepts and implementing them natively on iOS to feel the platform first-hand.
A walk through Waggy's themed displays. Click any piece to enlarge.
Waggy was really an experiment: build something real natively, then compare the experience to the cross-platform world I know best.
A native iOS application written in Swift — deliberately hand-built on the platform to study it directly, as a counterpoint to Xamarin.Forms.