Skip – Australia’s Order-Ahead Coffee & Food Platform
Skip lets more than a million Australians pre-order coffee and food at 2,000-plus cafés and eateries, shaving precious minutes off every visit and boosting venue throughput.
The Challenge
Skip’s ten-year-old hybrid codebase contained large native modules for docket printing, location, and push notifications. Keeping pace with Apple/Google SDK deprecations, new privacy rules, and venue-requested features strained their internal team.
Our Solution
Since 2023 we have acted as Skip’s mobile caretaker: • Upgraded iOS and Android targets every release cycle (now iOS 17 / API 35). • Migrated critical Objective-C ⇢ Swift and Java ⇢ Kotlin libraries, reducing build-time warnings by 78 %. • Introduced Face ID / biometric login on iOS and a multi-printer gateway so busy cafés can auto-route orders to coffee, food, and drinks stations.
Results
I have kept both the iOS and Android apps compliant with Apple and Google SDK/API requirements, integrated Firebase Crashlytics for real-time crash reporting, added support for printing to multiple printers, and implemented Face ID authentication on iOS.
Key Features
- Order-ahead with Apple Pay / Google Pay
- Skip Zero reusable-cup program
- Multi-printer docket routing
- Face ID / biometric login (iOS)
- Venue discovery & map filters
- Real-time order status and ETAs
- Loyalty stamps and targeted promos
- Crash-free analytics dashboard
Technologies Used
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