Cycliq / Cycliq Products Pty. Ltd.

Cycliq

Cycliq Products Pty. Ltd.

Xamarin

Desktop

Cross-platform desktop application with a special functionality for Cycliq bike cameras.

Task:

Desktop Win and Mac application which allows setting up of Cycliq Fly 12CE/6CE bike cameras, as well as process and edit videos taken from the mentioned devices.

Technologies and Tools:

Xamarin Shared Project, Xcode Interface Builder, Mapbox static maps, XAML markup, Xamarin.Mac, WPF, OAuth 2.0, Facebook, Facebook C# SDK, Strava API, Strava C# SDK, YouTube, C# YouTube SDK.

Challenge

Our customer is producer of bike cameras. Cycliq’s main idea is to make cyclist’s travel on the roads safer. Our goal is to empower Cycliq cameras and create special functions for video shooting and processing.

Solution

We had developed the app for both Win and Mac. Xamarin Shared Project is used for larger coverage of system functions. The code contains classes and methods for working with camera settings, ffmpeg, video processing logic, Strava API (using Strava C# SDK), maps (Mapbox static maps), YouTube (using the C# YouTube SDK), Facebook (using the Facebook C# SDK), interfaces for drawing, saving application settings, etc.

Platform-specific code (UI, drawing) is implemented using WPF for Win and Xamarin.Mac for Mac. Authorization to access and work with Strava, YouTube and Facebook APIs is carried out using OAuth 2.0 protocol with a help of browser navigation.

UI for Mac is generated using Xcode Interface Builder, for Win – using XAML markup. The data for the video overlay is provided by the Strava API tools from the recorded activity (training).

Result

The software provides an ability to control camera settings (quality of shooting, settings of light indications, etc.), cut or merge video clips recorded by the device and create a visual overlay (which contains athlete’s performance and location on the map at a specific point of time) on the final video.

The software also provides opportunity to view the lists of processed video files and upload them to the social networks. Thousands of satisfied customers use this functional application. We glad to see that our software helps to secure bicycle trips and also gives opportunity to watch recorded video in high quality.

If road users think there’s a chance they’ll be recorded, there’s less chance they’ll do something dangerous. And if things do go wrong, you’ve got the evidence to show what happened».