About

The Client is a European bank with 80 service centers and $254 million of equity capital, consulting services for businesses operating in the energy sector.

Challenge

The Client needed iOS/Android applications that could provide ultimate mobility, quality customer-oriented service and meet high security standards. Another requirement was custom back-end development. VolgoTechnologies was trusted to implement the project due to its deep understanding of the banking industry and considerable experience in iOS and Android app development.

Solution

With only a Project Manager on the Client s side, VolgoTechnologies was engaged in the full cycle of mobile banking application development from defining and analyzing requirements through design and prototyping to implementation, testing and market release.

When creating the application, both the Client and VolgoTechnologies were focused on enriching user experience. Thus, the tool was designed to let users perform a wide range of financial operations such as balance check, credit/deposit management, money transfer and online payments (including scheduling and enabling automatic payments), mobile topping up, currency exchange rates and more.

At the same time, the app pushes the capabilities of mobile devices to the limit and makes use of such functions as GPS-navigation (to help find the nearest service point), push notifications, and integration with SMS-banking in case of Internet connection failure.

Staging

Staging the development and deployment of an award-winning mobile banking app for a commercial bank with $1.5 billion in assets requires a structured, iterative approach that ensures secure, user-friendly, and feature-rich capabilities while meeting regulatory requirements. Below is a step-by-step staging guide

Dataware House

Dataware House

Desktop Application

Results

The application was successfully delivered and is now available at App Store and Google Play. Helping the bank customers become more flexible, save time and gain more control over their financial activities and products, the app has gained widespread recognition and took part in mobile banking award ceremonies in 2014 and 2015. It now holds a silver title "Android Mobile App - 2014" and has 2 golden awards: "Best Mobile Banking for iOS - 2015" and "Best Mobile Banking for Android - 2015".

Technologies and Tools

Android: Android SDK, Android Studio, Eclipse, SQLite, Volley, Gradle, logcat, UiAutomator iOS: Objective-C, XCode 6, UIkit, Core Data, Location Services, SVN Back-end: Java 1.7, Spring Framework 4, Hibernate 4, Quartz 2, Ext JS 4.2, JUnit 4, Mockito 1.1, Maven 3, MySQL 5.6, JBoss AS 7 Other: VASCOs DIGIPASS for Mobile, Google Maps