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Shopping Guide App For a Retail Chain With 60+ Supermarkets

How enriching the existing Android app’s functionality with the ability to create a shopping list using voice allowed the supermarket chain add 640.000 new loyalty cardholders to their four-million base.

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This app offers the following features:

browse through e-catalogs of the products

track seasonal and weekly offers, as well as the company’s current sales

fill a shopping list by adding items from the catalog or by creating custom entries

create a shopping list using voice (for android device owners)

make shopping lists through the web portal at home and send them to mobile devices

view a list of all store locations and easily find the nearest one on the integrated map

Challenges

Our client had two different applications for iOS and Android platforms, as presented in AppStore and GooglePlay, respectively. The decision was made to significantly extend their functionality and to release a new version of the app for iOS and Android, and to create a version compatible with Windows Phone.

Solutions

With Xamarin we were able to use existing layouts and resources for UI. We could focus exclusively on how to implement the app’s functionality in the best way possible. The aim was to meet tight deadlines and stay within the prescribed budget. As a result, the new version of the application was made for both iOS and Android platforms. Thus, the customer’s desire was fulfilled. Now we’re working on the user interface for the Windows Phone platform, and the logic has been already implemented.

Technologies

IOS Application For Online Ticket Sale in the US

How building a mobile app for ticket sales allowed the US retail company to increase its user base by 56%.

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Challenge

The task was to create a mobile application for ticket sales. The challenge of this project was to develop a graphic imaging of a map and a scheme of a stadium or hall to give a spectator a chance to select the desired seat. In addition to this, the task was complicated by the need to fit a large amount of information in graphical form on the small screen of mobile devices.

Solution

Our Xamarin developers created a mobile application for iOS devices. The complexity problem was solved by using SvgKit library, which made the task a little easier and accelerated the development process. This solution also made it possible to develop the application compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Key features

With this online marketplace you can:

See every ticket available in your price range

Make an offer and get an instant answer

See the best deals in the building, due to our interactive maps

Spend less, go out more: the customers save an average of 33%

Get the best seats for the greatest events at unpublished prices due to close cooperation of the platform with the biggest names in sports and entertainment

Buy tickets days, weeks, even months in advance

Never miss a great event: get alerts about upcoming live events within your range of interests

Technologies Used

Expense Tracker App Evolution For a German Company

How code refactoring and performance optimization empowered a German company to hone the stability and maintainability of their mobile project, decreasing its upkeep cost by 11%.

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This is an app for fun and easy control of personal expenses. It helps you to plan future expenses and track performance of your current spendings in just a few taps.

The app introduces a revolutionary statistics-first approach in its user interface, so you always see the month’s budget at a glance. Adding a new expense is also extremely simple and fast.

Challenge

The customer started an app development in the beginning of 2013. Due to the app’s growing popularity, it was decided to speed up the development process. In January of 2014, the customer asked us for help. We joined the application development as a Xamarin expert and performed deep refactoring and performance optimization of the app.

App Benefits

Easy:

I set myself monthly budgets for my critical expenses and track my remaining budgets with one-click opening of the app

Intuitive:

I continuously enter my relevant spendings into this app, so that my monthly remaining budgets always stay up to date

Focused:

I track only those expenses that I care about. As for my monthly rent, I know it even without this app. But where did my latest ATM withdrawal end up in such a short time?

Solution

Instinctools quickly hooked into the development. We have not only eliminated some bugs and memory leaks, but also improved the app’s functionality with big data sets. We have helped to speed up the app development and improved the application’s stability.

Technologies

Mobile App For a Cookware Manufacturer

How crafting an IoT-driven mobile application with multiple timers’ remote setup and other smart features empowered a pressure cooker manufacturer to usher in the era of intelligent cooking and double the sales of the device.

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Our customer is an authoritative cookware producing company. They produce pans, knives, pots, pressure cookers

You have to fix a small controller at pressure valve of the pressure cooker. This sensor:

measures the pressure inside the cooker

has built-in cooking timer

counts how many times cooking took place

warns about coming service activities

alarms in case of too low or too high pressure

A new generation controllers has a possibility to connect with a mobile phone through BLE (Bluetooth low energy). Now user can follow the cooking process right from their couch watching TV