About the Client

They are a renowned global online commerce platform that serves as a marketplace, allowing users to connect, sell a wide variety of goods, and make purchases. In addition to offering fixed-price sales, the platform also enables users to bid on items for better deals.

Challenges Faced

They were facing scaling challenges because their mobile app was built as a single monolithic application using in-house legacy frameworks.

As a result, adding new features — such as incorporating carbon-neutral widgets to track the environmental impact of producing clothing materials or fixing issues in the core framework — became increasingly difficult. This ultimately led to longer release cycles.

Solution Overview

Our team solved the challenge by developing a solid technology strategy and implementing it using the latest technologies:

• Split the App for modularity

The mobile application was divided into smaller functional modules such as cart, search functionality, etc for greater flexibility.



• Module as a Framework Library for an Optimized Solution

Each module was built as a framework library, and a base infrastructure library common to all modules was also developed. And lastly, Industry-specific apps, such as a fashion app, were then built by assembling individual modules.

• CocoaPods to manage dependencies for iOS

For iOS, dependencies between module framework libraries were managed using CocoaPods.

Benefits

After our collaboration, our client was able to achieve:

• A 95% improvement in the mobile app release cycle.
• Smooth bug fixes and easier app maintenance.

Conclusion

Our optimized technical solution modernized their entire in-house legacy framework, enabling app scalability, smoother debugging, and faster release cycles.