Aetherius Solutions
We’ll give you the initial version of your app in just 2 weeks!
We’ll give you the initial version of your app in just 2 weeks!
Salona is a mobile app for booking appointments in beauty salons. Users can easily book an appointment with just one click, and get a reminder on time. On the other hand, beauty salons can eliminate the need for a notebook by using an electronic calendar display. This allows them to easily accept or deny requests.
According to Statista, it is anticipated that the Beauty and Personal care market will experience an annual growth rate of 3.09% in 2024. Salona team wanted to test the mobile app in Serbia, where annual growth is expected to be 1.56%. Since the client came with requests that included fixing mistakes made by their former partner, it was challenging for us to break into that market and meet expectations.
Let's go through the specific concerns the client faced and how we helped them save future development time by 54%!
Industry: Beauty and Personal Care
Services: Development, Design, Maintenance and Support
Our journey started when they came to us at the recommendation of a client satisfied with our prior work together. They wanted to bring their idea to life so they could start testing it right away on both iOS and Android platforms.
When contacting us, Salona had 3 main concerns:
Integrating new context into existing architecture is often a demanding task for a development team. In our specific case, the client wanted to introduce an option for salon employees to use the application, not just the owners. They would get partial management capabilities or access to certain functionalities.
Their former partner’s prediction was 5 months to implement the requested feature. By rewriting outdated technology on iOS, we streamlined that process and delivered the first version in just 1 month! Our mobile app developers delivered the first version with performance enhancements, improvements in UI/UX design, and resolution of existing bugs in the mobile app.
Integrating new context into existing architecture is solved most easily by creating a new navigation graph and inheriting existing classes for drawing the UI. Overall, we modified the structure to make it easy for us to inherit all the required classes by using a Design pattern
Instead of using the existing Viper(UIKit) for the iOS app, we translated it into Clean/MVVM (SwiftUI), allowing the app to run smoother and faster
To address their concern about waiting for results, they were regularly updated on progress and any changes in timelines, and the development approach was divided into more manageable, time-limited projects with due dates
We finished MVP development within 1 month and saved them 5 months of waiting!
Rewriting the outdated iOS technology into Clean/MVVM (SwiftUI) saves future development time by 54%!
The MVP included the onboarding process, code analysis, issue resolution, and release. By improving the stability and UI/UX design of the application, we helped them get on the App and Play Store and start testing the app right away. Well-optimized app increased user engagement and the number of installations on both platforms.
