I don't have any experience with the Bump app but using the API was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Poor documentation, a number of undocumented bugs and general inconsistency of the API callbacks were incredibly frustrating. We used it for a simple app where the client wanted two devices to send a single string back and forth to one another. Debugging all the bugs with the Bump API became the most time consuming part of the project when it was suppose to save us time.
Maybe they'll have fixed some of these bugs in version 3.0 of the API but this is just a heads up for any developers who seen this and think using the API could be useful. Make sure you give yourself some extra time because it does not work out of the box. A lot of assembly is required.
I'm head of API at Bump. We've been hard at work on version 3 of our API for both iOS and Android, complete with quite a lot of dogfooding. Both betas are significantly easier to integrate, and offer excellent performance in addition to more features. We are constantly looking for feedback from developers and integrating this quickly into our development cycle.
Working out of the box is something that we demand and is the typical experience for an API user, both in the old versions and in the new ones. If it doesn't, then we are available on email and our Google Groups and respond quickly.
A concrete example of how we are always pushing the limit: greater than 90% of all matches are now displayed on the handset in less than one second from time the of bump.
Poor documentation, a number of undocumented bugs and general inconsistency of the API callbacks were incredibly frustrating. We used it for a simple app where the client wanted two devices to send a single string back and forth to one another. Debugging all the bugs with the Bump API became the most time consuming part of the project when it was suppose to save us time.
Maybe they'll have fixed some of these bugs in version 3.0 of the API but this is just a heads up for any developers who seen this and think using the API could be useful. Make sure you give yourself some extra time because it does not work out of the box. A lot of assembly is required.