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Storytelling: Hitch

After 4 months at the Apple Developer Academy, I was given a chance to work on an individual project. I reflected: I can manage state, design an app, and slice up components in SwiftUI. But I wanted to connect state to my own components in a way that feels useful and reliable — closer to a real-world app than a basic counter.

So I built Hitch.

Hitch is an app that lets you send a ride proposal to a friend. You pick the driver from your contacts, the app calculates the route distance, you set a price per kilometer in your local currency (IDR, USD, AUD, etc.), and Hitch sends the proposal straight to your friend via iMessage or WhatsApp. Under the hood, it uses MapKit to figure out the route and Contacts to pull in your friends, but to the user it just feels like a quick text message with a price tag.

🛠️ Architecture & Learning Wins

• Modern SwiftUI State: Leveraged @Observable, @MainActor, and @Bindable to handle data reactivity cleanly and maintain thread safety.
• MVVM Pattern: Kept view logic separate from data models, learning how views pass information to each other.
• Framework Integration: Integrated MapKit for route distance calculations and Contacts framework for seamless friend selection.
• Accessibility & Contrast: Built with accessibility in mind — supporting Dynamic Type (Large Text) and High Contrast mode.

📸 Gallery & Project Photos

👥 Mentors & Guidance

Special thanks to our academy mentors for guiding me through this individual project:

• 🎯 Daniel Aditya Istyana — Tech Guidance & Code Architecture
• 🎯 Dimas Ackyl Mohamad — Design & User Experience
• 🎯 Anita Michiko Tamala — Project Direction & Feedback