About client

TheSoul Publishing company is one of the leading global content providers. Being the leading global media content provider TheSoul Publishing company started with brands that our team in Kazan was lucky to help go mobile initially.

The client was looking to develop multiple mobile apps both for iOS and Android platforms that could be technically supported relatively simply in order to update multiple projects with minimum pain and maximum re-use of code across brands.

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Challenges

In our desire to help the client develop not only mobile apps but also iOS & Android competencies within the company we faced some interesting challenges:

• Lack of API documentation — as originally there was not much front the back-end was serving.
• Multi-tenant approach in code — where a single repo was to be used across several projects within the client company.
• Mobile development culture — was originally missing in the client company that was both challenging when it was about accepting work yet also an opportunity to develop something very new.

The client was looking to develop apps & gain competency in mobile development.

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Solutions

Within a year we’ve accomplished the following to solve some of the most interesting challenges:

• Through the daily Scrum-based agile collaboration of mobile & back-end devs it’s been possible to build strong API requirements and avoid re-engineering the back-end as much as possible. That is the number one risk in such parallel development.
• In this project it was all about two codebases, when developed correctly it was contributing to a handful of projects, which is amazing from the perspective of supporting many codebases otherwise.
• Both for even better collaboration with back-end devs and for setting up the mobile development culture our Android senior dev was working on-site to help the team and the culture grow. Such integration helped waive away some questions and concerns of how it’s actually looking from the other side that sometimes isn’t as obvious during the remote world era.