- Role
- Mobile development, cloud-backed features, product refinement
- Contributed to
- I contributed to this product.
- Stack
- Flutter
- Firebase
Situation
A peer-support community needed private conversations and group spaces without overwhelming members with noise.
The product also needed careful handling of photos, device permissions, community rules, and notification choices. Empty conversations and broad default settings could make the app feel confusing or intrusive.
What I built
I worked on a mobile application with account onboarding, profiles, support rooms, direct messages, shared resources, and media handling.
Members can control notifications for individual rooms and private conversations. Their choices persist, including decisions to opt out. The direct-message inbox filters empty channels and puts recent conversations first.
I also worked on permission flows, legal content, community standards, mobile-platform requirements, and tests for important messaging behavior.
What changed
- Members choose which conversations deserve notifications.
- Empty direct-message threads no longer clutter the inbox.
- Permission requests explain why the app needs access.
- Community standards are available inside the product.
- Tests cover notification defaults and conversation cleanup.
Engineering notes
Notification settings are stored per user and per conversation. Updates appear immediately in the interface. Failed saves return the control to its previous state.
Some cleanup work handles records created by older versions of the product, so users do not have to repair their own data.
Try the model
A list of conversations, each with its own notification switch. Members choose which ones can send a notification, and a failed save puts the switch back as it was.
A simplified working model of the real system. No client data.