The DayDayCook iMessage app and sticker app were built in partnership with the App Store in preparation of the iOS 10 release. Both apps were released alongside iOS 10 and were both on the cover of the App Store in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China during the first week promotional period. The unstableness of the beta iOS 10 versions and the requirements to have the app work in split screen and both landscape and portrait orientations created a few difficulties. However, we were able to deliver a highly performant application that showcased our recipes in a convenient and abbreviated format suitable for the iMessage platform.
We released both a sticker application and a recipe sharing application alongside iOS 10. As part of our 2017 Chinese New Year promotion, I designed an additional unlockable sticker reward feature that integrated user data across our regular iPhone and iPad app and our recipe sharing iMessage app.
The core functions of our iMessage app are quickly sharing recipes with friends, fast keyword search, extended search via the search bar, and shopping list sharing. Upon clicking a shared recipe, the DayDayCook app will launch and directly open to the respective recipe's video. Our head of product and I worked independently to design the app's features and I developed both this app and the sticker app independently in the week leading up to the iOS 10 launch.