Our client company was founded in 2003 and has offices in Manhattan, NY and San Diego, CA and has launched such best-selling games as Jail Trail, Cadena de Presos, and Armadillo Gold Rush in Latin America. Over the last few years the client's games become a profitable business with 4 titles, including 2 best-sellers, distributed in over 15 countries Our client have launched its products on all the top US wireless phone operators such as AT&T, Alltel, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless, as well as in Latin America and Europe on both BREW CDMA and J2ME GSM carriers.

Business Need
The customer contacted Solovat to convert their existing J2EE and BREW Spanish/English translation software to iPhone mobile phones, to extend their sales to users of this popular mobile platform.

Solution
To take advantage of the extensive new capabilities of the iPhone, the application was substantially rewritten for the iPhone OS, using the existing applications as a specification. The application includes a phrasebook, dictionary, grammar rules list and verb conjugator. The elements are searchable and are also grouped by situation for easy reference. The user can quickly switch between Spanish to English and English to Spanish translation.

Features
Solovat developed the following modules for the customer:

• A data access module to handle ordinary searching and data management
• A specialized word item access module to provide advanced searching and retrieval for words and phrases
• A Menu UI module to present all menus and manage the user's navigation through the application
• A List View UI module to present lists of words, phrases, rules, etc.
• A Search UI module to manage the user's interaction with search functionality

Tools and Technologies

• iPhone SDK including Xcode, iPhone simulator and performance tool
• SQLite - database, used for application data storage
• C# - used for writing sql and script generation tools