A banking app for a finance giant

The Chief Architect of the company and a visionary in his field, in his quest for potential partners to revamp the app reached out to us via our website. The idea of the mobile app was to create a savvy and cost effective banking app for the youth. Their existing app was based on a different technology and they wanted our help to migrate this application to a more recent technology that would make it reliable and future-ready.

Snags while building up the ideal application are practically difficult to avoid. One of the major challenges that we faced was the restraint of time and the team on-call rose to the occasion, giving their best to ensure that the deliverables were ready when promised. State Management was an issue that needed the most attention. The in-built State Management library of React Native was not enough to handle the needs of the app. With a little research, the partner’s team found xstate to be the ideal fit for this use case. Since xstate is type-protected and depends on state machines and state outlines which are now grounded ideas, it is a simple to imagine State Management library. Another light library with a built-in cache called swr was utilized to demand deduplication. This additionally made the UX quicker and permitted polling. Also, since React Native’s core animation library lags in interactions because of the way it's built, react-native-reanimated-2 was chosen because it uses native threads for all interactions and animations making it much smoother. Another problem looked along the way was in picking the correct library for the theme but the client’s decision of choosing @shopify/restyle was the correct course as it permitted the utilization of a wide arrangement of properties, like colours, padding and typography, to make development quicker and more efficient.
In bird's eye viewThe design tool was decided to be Figma to align with the previous designs that were provided by the client.React Native Reanimated was chosen to implement animations as it allowed for greater flexibility for gesture-based animations.The project followed an engagement model based on the scrum methodology while utilizing Jira for task management.

The impressions that were made by how the team performed and how the product turned out to be worked out in our favour. The client who was elated with the experience of working with us has stretched out the undertaking to a more long-haul plan, which is ongoing and more vast. We were glad to be a part of this venture along with them on their quest to provide a smart and advanced banking solutions app for the millennials of their nation and we look forward to many more such opportunities to change the world with our partners.