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Checking school information on a phone should be simple. BetterW4 turns UWC Red Cross Nordic’s school website into a personalised native app, making it easier to find your schedule and access everyday school resources.

Three major quality-of-life improvements:

1. One combined timetable: Academic classes and extracurricular activities appear together, with subject colours and a Today overview. Students can see their day without switching between separate schedules.

2. Offline access: Previously loaded information is cached locally, so students can check their timetable and other saved school information without reliable internet.

3. Lessons at a glance: Home-screen and lock-screen widgets, plus an optional Live Activity, show the current or next lesson with a countdown. Students can quickly check their schedule without opening the app.

BetterW4 also brings assessments, grades, mail, campus information, and school resources into native screens. Automatic sign-in handles expired sessions, reducing repeated trips through the login process.
I spent 13 hours and 17 minutes building and preparing the iOS app for release, published it on the App Store, and distributed it to approximately 84 students who use iOS.
Jonathan Bangert (@jonbng) made the Android counterpart. My contribution is the iOS app and its App Store release.

I worked on a small part of a big project, that was based on a previous project of mine and @jonbng . A big part was understanding the codebase and the systems already setup.