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Shipaton at Week Six: Buildhorn Has Officially Been Submitted to Apple

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Buildhorn has been submitted to Apple for review. Six weeks into Shipaton, this week covers the widget data sync bug I chased down right before hitting submit, and how I put together the app screenshots.

Note: This is the 6th post about my work towards shipping an app for the Shipaton 2026 hackathon. If you want to read from the beginning you can find the link to the first post here.

As a reminder, I’m building a multi-layered application called Buildhorn so users can receive CI build failures directly to their phone. I’m using the following technologies:

  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Shared Kotlin Library, handles networking, file storage, and business logic)
  • iOS App (iOS app built using SwiftUI, focuses on the UI layer and consumes the Kotlin Multiplatform library for its business logic)
  • Firebase Backend (An all-in-one backend using Firebase Cloud Functions for endpoint creation/webhook event handling, Firebase Cloud Messaging for...

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