MailTestTask

iOS coding challenge

Goal

Typing in email addresses on mobile devices is error prone, and time consuming. The goal here is to reduce typos, mistakes, and save time entering addresses by using autocomplete and validation. Your objective is to build an incredible experience for users entering a single email address into a text field, while at the same time impressing us with how simple and clean your code is. We receive many submissions daily, yours needs to stand out. We'd love to be impressed by the user interface, by your code, and by the little touches that make it slick. Invoice Simple's customers are owner operators who run their own business, such as plumbers, cleaners, contractors etc. They are not very tech savvy, and as such need user interfaces that "just work".

Requirements

1. Email format validation Example: "alex@gmail" is not a valid email The user interface should indicate whether or not the email address is valid Where appropriate the interface should indicate what is wrong with the address

2. Email deliverability validation Users often typo an address, for example wrong domain name (gmail.con vs gmail.com), or just mis type it Use an existing API to confirm the email address can be delivered to, we recommend getting a free account at kickbox.io, and using their API Where appropriate the interface should indicate what is wrong Autocomplete domain names

3. Typing email addresses is a pain, wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to type the whole thing in? We have observed that most email addresses end in popular domain names such as gmail.com, yahoo.com Your autocomplete should suggest likely domain names and complete addresses For example if the user types "alex@" we'd expect suggestions based on most popular domains, say "alex@gmail.com", "alex@yahoo.com", If the user refines and types "alex@g" we'd expect suggestions based on popular domains beginning with g eg "alex@gmail.com", "alex@gmail.co.uk",

Implementation

• You should build an app, that we can run on any iOS device we might have at the office The app should have one screen, with one text box, that we can type an email address into
• Please write your code in Objective-C

Evaluating your solution

Your solution will be evaluated against the following criteria:

• We were able to easily build and run your code using XCode on OSX
• Code quality - is your code clean, simple, commented, modern, well designed
• User experience - how simple, intuitive and clear is the UI
• UI - make sure you're using a good layout, simple/modern colors. It's best to stick with current standards.
• Error handling - your code should handle potential errors gracefully