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About

Intro

My name is Andrew Steinmetz and the idea for Wolf Pack came about when this majestic creature, Finley, entered my life.

When Fin was just a puppy being potty trained, it was difficult for my partner and I to communicate when she was last taken out given we work on different floors in the house. I was not happy with any of the current apps on the market, so being a mobile application developer myself I set out to build one! So a few years later, Fin is all grown up and I have finally shipped the app I made for her.

Technologies Used

After experimenting with a couple different technologies, I finally committed to building Wolf Pack out with Kotlin Multiplatform with the goal of trying to share as much code as possible between a native Android and iOS app.

Code Style

  • Ktlint - an anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with built-in formatter
  • ktlint-gradle - Gradle plugin for Ktlint

Shared

Backend

  • Hikari - Fast, simple, reliable. HikariCP is a "zero-overhead" production ready JDBC connection pool
  • Postgres - database
  • Exposed - typesafe SQL wrapper DSL
  • Ktor - server & http client framework