Halo Waypoint
The cross-platform companion app for the Halo community. My contribution was the responsive CSS work that made it hold together across phone and tablet form factors.
Numbers
- 10
- Team size
- 2 months
- Build time
Problem
343 Industries needed one companion app to serve the Halo community across every phone and tablet form factor, and a cross-platform build that works on the two devices in the office is not the same thing as one that works on the fleet.
Solution
I worked on the tablet UX development and formatting for iPad and mobile handsets — implementing functionality and handling the resolution changes that decide whether one build covers a real fleet or merely the devices on the team's desks.
Analysis
I contributed to a twelve-person build rather than owning a product, and my part of it was narrow: cross-platform layout stabilization on somebody else's architecture.
On a Cordova project that work is unglamorous and load-bearing in equal measure. Each form factor you fail to cover comes back as a one star review from someone with no interest in why it broke.
