![]() The main use is to, in real-time, control the flow of the ride between two parties, the passenger and the driver, as well as dynamic GPS updates,” Moore. Using a Node backend and MongoDB lookup, Roam easily implemented PubNub into the Zoomy app to update and connect drivers and customers, all in under a second. You can’t run a business on those,”Īs a result, Roam chose the PubNub Real-Time Network to power all real-time communication, signaling, and updating in the Zoomy app. I felt that it wasn’t going to meet the reliability needs, and having a real point of contact that would support it, rather than a 3rd party contact. “When I started looking at mobile, someone else had done a library for them, it wasn’t the real-time service provider themselves. Additionally, the first provider they experimented with had 3rd party SDKs, were weaker on mobile, and only seemed to be focused on web based real-time. Because the Zoomy app is entirely mobile, battery constraints and cross-SDK compatibility were key concerns. This provider’s biggest limitation was their compatibility and functionality on mobile. Because for us, real-time was one of many pieces of the puzzle,Īfter Roam decided to implement a real-time network rather than building their own with polling, they tried another real-time service provider first. In the back of my mind, I was thinking ‘Do I want to run a real-time network as well?’ Scalability, operations, and writing the mobile client on two different platforms, and maintaining it, felt like a stretch of resources. Scaling and maintaining that network is another. Building and integrating a custom real-time network is only part of the development process. When Roam experimented with SocketRocket and Socket.io, they had another build vs buy discussion. It would be up to 10 seconds depending on where they fell on the polling interval,Ĭhris Moore co-founder and Director of Roam Creative Build-vs-Buy It overloaded the infrastructure unnecessarily, and it just didn’t have that smooth feeling. It hammered the backend server for every 10 seconds to check for updates and to publish data. The long polling system only hits the backend server ever 10 seconds, meaning that updates weren’t publishing as they happened. The biggest issue with polling was that it was not actually real-time. They first tried to build a custom real-time solution in-house using long-polling. Dynamic GPS updates to show location of driver on a real-time updating mapīefore PubNub, Roam experimented both with another real-time service provider and an open source, custom solution, both which came up short for the real-time functionality they needed.Control the overall communication and notification flow between customers and drivers.Roam needed a real-time network to power two key components of the Zoomy app: This meant that Roam had to build two different applications (one for customers and one for drivers), built on top of a real-time network to allow the two applications to interact and communicate, in real-time, with one another. The appeal of Zoomy is real-time responsiveness and interaction for both the user and the taxi driver. Zoomy is New Zealand’s first real-time taxi service app, and is currently New Zealand’s #1 travel app. ![]() ![]() Zoomy connects users to taxis in New Zealand, allowing them to find a taxi ride, track its route and arrival time, book rides, watch your taxi on a map, and pay for your ride. ![]() Roam developed Zoomy, an iPhone and Android taxi application. They design, develop, and deploy a wide variety of mobile applications for both startups and Fortune 500 companies, on several different platforms, devices, and operating systems. Roam Creative is a mobile app development studio based out of Auckland, New Zealand. ![]()
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