Frédéric Maquin | Independent iOS developer

Abjapp

Learn the Arabic alphabet

Date: June 2015 to Ongoing
Technologies: Version 1.0 Objective-C Core Data Version 1.2 Swift Realm

Abjapp is an iPhone application teaching the Arabic alphabet.

The Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Each lesson focuses on three specific letters and must be validated by a quiz to progress. Knowledge can also be practiced on-demand, with random quizzes.

Abjapp offers details about each letters: their names, how to pronounce them and how to write them depending on their positions within a word.

The Bell

Yet another round-based, HIIT timer

Date: May 2020 to Ongoing
Technologies: Swift SQLite with GRDB

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The Bell is temporarily unavailable on the App Store, until I find time to update it for the Apple Watch Series 7.

The Bell is a pure watchOS app recording HIIT workouts. As an avid user of the stock Workout app, I tried to keep the look and feel very close to the original design.

The Bell strives for simplicity and limits its scope to two features:

tracking elapsed time and notifying changes with audio/haptic feedback;
logging completed workouts in the Activity app.

Genesis Energy IQ

iOS application

Date: April 2019 to November 2019
Client: Genesis Energy
Technologies: Swift Firebase Azure Node.js

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I joined Genesis Energy —the largest energy retailer of New Zealand— for about seven months to work on their main app: EnergyIQ. I was fully integrated in their mobile team.

While EnergyIQ started as a simple billing app, it's now offering complex energy management features, from realtime carbon emissions to advanced usage breakdowns.

Most of my duties at Genesis revolved around implementing new management features or improving the pre-existing ones. I also supported the backend team when these changes required new endpoints.

actiTENS

iOS & android applications

Date: December 2015 to February 2018
Client: Sublimed
Technologies: Swift Bluetooth Low Energy Realm

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actiTENS is a discreet, ergonomic and connected new-generation transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator (TENS).

actiTENS is composed of two parts:

the hardware (pulse generator), responsible for delivering the nerve stimulation therapy;
the smartphone app, acting as an interface between the user and the pulse generator.

I started working with Sublimed in late 2015 and helped them get the project off the ground. Over the course of two years, I had the pleasure to design, build and ship the app on both iOS and Android.

How Many Sleeps?

Animated countdowns for children

Date: October 2018 to February 2019
Client: Curiome
Technologies: Swift Realm

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Young children often have trouble grasping the amount of time remaining between today and long-awaited events. How Many Sleeps? lets children learn about the concept of time, by counting the number of sleeps remaining until an event.

Genetrainer

Genetically guided fitness

Date: May 2017 to June 2017
Technologies: Swift SVG JavaScript

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I joined the team behind Genetrainer, and created a muscle selection module. This module allows athletes to attach comments to muscle groups and joints. Trainers and physical therapists can then set the goals accordingly.

The module can also display the fatigue associated with each muscle / joint after a training session was completed; and be used in a web-centric environment.

Although small in scope, this project was immensely enriching, as it let me practice my modest design/illustration skills.

Mynöx

Join inspiring private events in small groups.

Date: August 2017 to November 2017
Client: Mynöx
Technologies: Swift Firebase

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Mynöx is a niche social network focusing on private events. Using the app, a host organises an event at his place and can invite a number of guests (either friends or strangers).

The app is packed with a large number of features, among which are:

a real-time chat, to discuss parties and keep in touch with new friends;
a tinder-like interface to invite guests matching your criteria (distance, age, tastes, etc.);
a fully-featured notification center, in which users will receive messages about join requests, invitations or event updates.
a Facebook Integration, to find and invite friends.

From a design perspective, I simply iterated over the previous —Material Design based— mockups that the client provided and adapted them to the iOS design language.

Instructions

Coach marks builder

Date: October 2015 to Ongoing
Technologies: Swift

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Instructions is an open source iOS library, written in Swift, designed to display coach marks. It's easy to use and highly customizable.

The library was extracted from previous work, ported to Swift and further improved, to make it available for everyone.

ink, a narrative language developped by inkle Ltd.

I fell in love with ink back in 2017 and have maintained regular contributions to the ecosystem ever since. Below are some of these projects.

inkjs

JavaScript/TypeScript implementation of ink

Technologies: JavaScript TypeScript

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inkjs is an open source project created and maintained by @y-loshe. I'm a regular contributor to the project, which closely track the state of the original C# library.

inkgd

GDScript implementation of ink

Technologies: GDScript

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inkgd is very similar to inkjs. It's a full port of the ink runtime in GDScript (Godot's main programming language). I started the project in 2018, at a time when Godot didn't fully support the mono runtime.

Ink Language Server

An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for ink

Technologies: C# TypeScript

Language Server on Github VSCode extension on Github

I first tried to implement a language server in 2018, using TypeScript. I eventually scrapped this early attempt in favour of building the language server directly in inklecate (the name of ink's compiler). The current version is still a work in progress.

Working on a Language Server Protocol implementation is a huge learning opportunity and a lot of fun!

Ink TMLanguage

A Textmate grammar

Technologies: YAML TypeScript

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A grammar bringing advanced syntax highlighting in any editor supporting Textmate grammars.

Sophisticate

Clean SVGs and use them in interactive web pages

Technologies: TypeScript

See on Github

Sophisticate is a little JavaScript utility that I have often used to clean and add proper metadata to the output of vector editors. The generated SVGs tend to be messy and lack proper classes / ids to be usable, once inlined into an html document.

Sophisticate supports different modification rules, and can also run SVGO to further clean SVGs. Given how often I work with SVG, this little utility is a huge time saver.

Daz Studio, a 3D scene creation and rendering application developped by Daz Productions, Inc.

Autodazzler

Batch renderer for Daz Studio

Technologies: JavaScript

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Autodazzler is a script written in ECMAScript 5, designed to automate the rendering pipeline of Daz Studio.

Pomme Plate

Design

Date: June 2015 to Ongoing
Software: Sketch

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Pomme Plate is a collection of Apple devices, rendered in a flat style. The project is licensed under the CC0 license, making it available to everyone for free.

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Abjapp

Learn the Arabic alphabet

The Bell

Yet another round-based, HIIT timer

Genesis Energy IQ

iOS application

actiTENS

iOS & android applications

How Many Sleeps?

Animated countdowns for children

Genetrainer

Genetically guided fitness

Mynöx

Join inspiring private events in small groups.

Instructions

Coach marks builder

ink, a narrative language developped by inkle Ltd.

inkjs

JavaScript/TypeScript implementation of ink

inkgd

GDScript implementation of ink

Ink Language Server

An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for ink

Ink TMLanguage

A Textmate grammar

Sophisticate

Clean SVGs and use them in interactive web pages

Daz Studio, a 3D scene creation and rendering application developped by Daz Productions, Inc.

Autodazzler

Batch renderer for Daz Studio

Pomme Plate

Design

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