Development of the UniMaps 2.0 version

The development of the UniMaps Android app began seven years ago and the development of the iOS app five years ago. Since then, the app has been developed by students and efforts have always been made to stay at the cutting edge of technology. However, the development of apps has changed a lot during this time and an app that is developed today bears no resemblance to an app from five or even seven years ago. Frameworks, libraries and even programming languages have changed and it is hardly possible to keep our current UniMaps apps up to date with the latest technology.
For this reason, we decided last year to tackle a new implementation. In doing so, we are switching to an up-to-date technological basis, which in particular interlinks the Android and iOS apps more closely. This will ensure the greatest possible platform proximity while avoiding code duplication. We hope that this will result in significantly more stable apps and faster implementation and release of new functions. Version 2.0 will be released in 2024 in a beta and in the final version.

As we are currently putting a lot of work into version 2.0, this also means that there will not be as many updates for the current version in the near future and we will only return to our regular updates with version 2.0. For this reason, we would like to take this opportunity to provide an insight into the current development status of the Android app. It must be said that the design is not yet final and details will probably still change. However, you can already see a function that we were not able to implement so easily in the current Android app, the dark mode: