


“Each of these needs to be kept simple, quick, easy to access, and clearly presented - all whilst our customer could be standing on a hillside or in a storm or wearing winter hiking gear and gloves!”

“Our app has a relatively complex set of interactions,” said Liam. Outdooractive’s app strives to deliver accurate information in real time to the users’ wearable devices, including turn-by-turn navigation, trail conditions, and weather updates. Using new tools to create an improved user experience This helped the developers create a more convenient experience for users.
ANDROID STUDIO GRADLE BUILD TAKES FOREVER CODE
Having a modern code base and increasing the development speed helped make the UI code more intuitive for the developers to read and write, allowing for faster prototyping in the design phase and more fluid collaboration. “What would have taken us days now takes us hours,” said Liam Hargreaves, the Senior Project Manager of Outdooractive. It cut development time by an estimated 30% for Outdooractive’s developers, accelerating their ability to create streamlined user interfaces. The application overhaul quickly showed the benefits of Compose for Wear OS. Users value wearables as navigation tools and activity trackers, so when Google reached out with Android’s new UI toolkit, Compose for Wear OS, Outdooractive’s developers jumped on the opportunity to improve their app for this growing market. As a platform focused on helping users plan and navigate their outdoor adventures, Outdooractive has long viewed wearable devices like smart watches as essential to the growth of their app. Outdooractive, Europe’s largest outdoor platform, provides trail maps and information to a global community of more than 12 million nature enthusiasts.
