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Redwerk has several in-house mobile applications on its account and dozens created for our clients worldwide. To be on a trendy wave of app development we always advance our knowledge of new technologies and abilities of mobile platforms.
The idea of our next pet project appeared when Apple showed iOS 11 early beta with spam filtering functionality. As almost every person who has a phone receives lots of annoying spam
messages from services you never subscribed to, our iPhone software development specialists decided to dig a bit deeper and use the shiny new options of iOS for Redwerk’s next app.SpamHound for iOS works as a complimentary application with the original messenger, and only offers its users spam filtering rules creation. We intended to make the app as close as possible to iOS native looks so that the users have the feeling that they use the application created by Apple.
What we learned hard way, was that iOS 11 documentation was very brief, and we basically stepped on every rake to understand how the functionality works. We also implemented the back-up for rules using authorization with social accounts and iCloud. And all this we accomplished in around three months since the whole idea appeared.
