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We used React Native, Expo, Firebase, Google Maps SDK, Sendbird SDK, Whereby API.

We chose to use Expo and React Native for its ability to build and deploy a consumer app quickly to iOS and Android. Firebase and Google Maps for their easy to interpret documentation. Sendbird was favoured for its ability to handle both in-app chat and video calling (although the latter was ultimately built using Whereby due to technical limitations accessing native modules with Expo).

As with all new experiences, there was a lot of learning curves to get over quickly! We discussed a lot of our contingencies in advance the moment we could sense a level of difficulty implementing any particular package or SDK. This made it easy to budget our trade-offs when necessary and focussing our efforts on the most mission critical components.

Having to traverse several challenges in rapid succession also gave us a chance to concretise 13 weeks worth of learning. To the extent that things that were unclear or confusing just two weeks ago we now understand effortlessly.

As evidenced by the hilarious tutor bios, in the end, we had so much fun making this app that no part of it ever felt daunting. Okay maybe the first day but isn't that always the case when you start a new project?

We hope you enjoy consuming it just as much as we enjoyed producing it!