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Second Lockdown On The Way : Threat Or Opportunity?

Last night the Irish government announced that the country would be moving to level 5 of the ‘Plan For Living with COVID-19’ framework. This is effectively another nationwide lockdown and will come as devastating news to some people and businesses.

This is a very serious time for many Irish businesses and we understand that some will not recover and live to see a brighter day. For other businesses however, there is an opportunity to turn a perceived negative into a positive. This article will explore this.

Amber Springs Hotel App Goes Live

Today we’re delighted to launch a brand new app for The Amber Springs hotel in Gorey. The app showcases all of the services available at the hotel and allows for push notifications and in-app notifications.

The app is available on IOS and Android platforms and can be downloaded at the links below.

IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1519029444

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clearsoft.AmberSpringsApp

Case Study – Amber Springs Hotel App

Technologies Used

IOS
Android
Push Notifications
In App Notifications
User Interface Design
Geo-Location Services
Published to Google Play Store
Published to I-Tunes
Analytical Data Available
Advertising Campaign Capability

Description

The Amber Springs Hotel is a 4 star luxury hotel located in the outskirts of Gorey Co. Wexford. Over 2020 we were delighted to team up with the hotel to work on a mobile app that needed to be as beautiful as it was functional.

The hotel has been a well known establishment in Gorey for over 20 years and is seen as one of the premier hotels in the region. They have an existing website with booking capability and they wanted to supplement this with an app on both IOS & Android platforms.

Appy New Year!

First of all we’d like to wish a very happy 2020 to all of our clients, friends and anybody reading this blog. 2019 was a great year and we’re excited by upcoming projects in 2020. One of the projects we’re looking forward to in early 2020 is a mobile app for a Gorey based business – and we thought we’d take this opportunity to describe the benefits of an app to your business or organisation.

For the purposes of this article, we will be discussing only native apps here. See our post on the differences between native apps and mobile apps for more context.

Going Native… the differences between native apps and web apps

Since the launch of the first smartphones in 2007 the term ‘app’ has taken off in a huge way and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the term was invented at this time. Apps or applications have been around since the dawn of computing and are essentially programs or software that run and execute functionality. We have been creating applications here in ClearSoft before smartphones saw the light of day.

So when we receive enquiries about app development, the client will normally mean a mobile phone app. Very often we find that they are not aware of web apps and we will talk them through the differences. In this article we will describe native and web apps under the headings below :-

Cost
Speed
Functionality
Maintenance / Upgrades
Distribution
Look and feel

Case Study – Valuation App

Technologies Used

IOS
Objective C
SQLite
CSS3
Javascript
jQuery
IOS Camera / Photo Library features
IOS Geo-Location Services
IOS E-Mail integration
Xcode

Description

Kinsella Estates is an Estate Agents with offices in Gorey and Carnew. In 2017 they got in touch with us to see if we could improve their efficiency with some of their business processes – namely the property Valuations process.

For many reasons, homeowners will contact auctioneers to value their property. The auctioneer will inspect the property, take photo’s and create a report on the value of the property including details on location, number of rooms, condition of property etc. Typically the details are manually recorded during the inspection by filling out a paper based template with a pen. This information is then taken back to the office where the final report will be generated, photo’s added and emailed to the client.

Second Lockdown On The Way : Threat Or Opportunity?

Amber Springs Hotel App Goes Live

Case Study – Amber Springs Hotel App

Technologies Used

Description

Appy New Year!

Going Native… the differences between native apps and web apps

Case Study – Valuation App

Technologies Used

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