While serving as YouSee’s Apple platform technical lead, our team diligently worked on a comprehensive application transformation, ensuring it’s well-prepared for the next generation of user experiences.
With the YouSee Play app, you can watch TV, movies, and series on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV – it gives you access to hours of entertainment, wherever and whenever you want. The app brings together your TV channels, a plethora of movies and series, and Denmark’s largest children’s universe.
Key focus on
- Shared native platform code
- Complete rewrite of the app’s architecture
- Pushing for a “Learning Culture” within the team
Transformation
- Merging two completely separate apps into one
- Improving the user experience from browsing to playback
- Using TCA (The Composable Architecture) together with reactive
patterns as the building blocks for the next generation of YouSee
apps
Beautiful and rich UI that adapts to showcase all types of streamable content.
Remote playback with Google Cast™ and Airplay™ support.
Beautiful & reactive UI that adapts seamlessly and elegantly to any live player event.
Start-over live content that you might have missed.
Browse effortlessly across the app by using the native Picture-in-Picture feature.
Enabling a big screen experience with shared platform native code.
Transformation does not come easily, but it’s surely worth it!
Project Outcome
Next Steps
By developing and rewriting the underlying core architecture, the company is now ready to innovate at a much faster pace, opening up more possibilities for users and contributing to customer retention and acquisition.
The Numbers
- The application crash-free rate has increased from 75% to 99% in the tvOS application.
- Video start failures and video start time greatly improved by over 20%.
- Development efficiency was greatly increased by having shared code for all Apple devices.