A iOS app pitched to, and then designed for The Loft Cinema, Tucson Az. The mobile app displays upcoming film showtimes and other information. It also uses the cinema’s Twitter feed to display recent news. The app is compatible with iOS 5+, whilst also using Auto Layout for iOS6.0+. It is also designed for both iPhone and iPad, with the iPad version making use of UISplitViewController.

v1.0 of the app sent a request to the cinema’s in-house server using NSURLConnection. It then parsed the resulting XML feed using the Google GData class, and stored the data using Core Data. Using a similar method the news was obtained by sending a request to Twitter using their API. Subsequent versions of the app have used Cocoa Pod installations of AFNetworking, MagicalRecord, and STTwitter to simplify this process.

Film pages allow the user to buy tickets (via a UIWebView) and also add the showtime to their default calendar (using the EventKit framework).

The app also uses the ShareKit framework to allow users to share film details over a range of social networks.