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Our client, a finance and data startup, needed to extend their mobile stock price monitoring application to the Android platform. Our Computools team provided CTO as a Service by developing an Android application version using React Native and MPAndroidChart. As a result, the application became available to Android users. We added registration/login functions, real-time stock price display, charts, price indicators, detailed stock information, filters, and tracked stock lists.
The client is a start-up in the United States that specialises in the financial exchanges and data sector, with a focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.
It provides a mobile application for monitoring North American equities, making it easier for traders and investors to access real-time market data. The app offers various chart types, technical indicators and detailed information on stock prices and market dynamics. It is available on both iOS and Android platforms, catering to a wide user base in the financial industry.
As a start-up in the financial sector, the client aims to provide innovative trading research tools and platform solutions for fund management, contributing to the dynamic landscape of stock and share trading in North America.
There was an existing iOS app for monitoring North American equities, and the team wanted to create an equivalent Android version. The challenges included improving libraries for app development.
To address the problem, the Computools team offered a CTO, who developed a roadmap for the solution. Our team used React Native for Android app development, allowing code reuse and faster development. They integrated the MPAndroidChart library for graphical displays, offering various chart types and high customisation.
The app’s features and functionalities included sign-up/sign-in via email, password restore, real-time display of current share prices, various chart types (candlestick and bar graphs), price indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger, Stochastic, etc.), details of shares with trend parameters, filters by price range or stock market, and the ability to create a list of tracked shares.
Computools’ CTO used optimal solutions to achieve their goals and made several improvements that made the application even more effective for the client.
Developing an Android version allowed the app to expand its user base to the Android platform. The project included enhancements to the application’s interface, making it more user-friendly and visually appealing. It also involved correcting the logic of price indicators, ensuring that the app provided accurate and reliable information for traders and investors.
Computools CTO as a Service was chosen due to expertise, effective communication, agile methodologies, innovation and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions on time.
The plan was to provide innovative trading research tools and platform solutions for fund management, primarily in the North American equities market.
The client’s selection process involved carefully evaluating potential development partners, including considering industry expertise, technology competency, communication effectiveness, project management methodologies, innovation and delivery punctuality. Computools was the preferred choice due to its extensive experience, financial industry knowledge and commitment to delivering a high-quality solution.
Our company offered the services of a CTO who developed the plan, assembled the team and brought the project to the support stage.
The Android version introduced several essential features and functionalities, including:
Design plays an important role in creating a satisfying user experience and a successful marketing strategy for a mobile app.
A detailed profile of the target user, including their characteristics, behaviours and goals, to guide product development and marketing strategies.
An organised and hierarchical structure that outlines the website's pages and their relationships, serving as a blueprint for navigation and content.
Visual representations of webpage layouts, showing the basic structure and placement of elements without detailed design, aiding in the planning and communication of website design.
The visual and interactive elements of a website or application that users interact with and that influence the user experience, including menus, buttons, forms, and the overall design.
Redux
Redux was employed as the state management library, ensuring consistent behaviour, cross-platform compatibility, and ease of testing. It provided functionality for managing the application's state and was integral to the Android app's development.
React Native
React Native was chosen as the primary technology for developing the Android version. It enabled the development of a cross-platform application, allowing for code reusability between Android and iOS versions. React Native is known for its efficiency in creating visually appealing and responsive mobile applications.
MPAndroidChart
MPAndroidChart library was used for graphical display within the application. This powerful Android chart view/graph view library supports various chart types, including line, bar, pie, radar, bubble and candlestick charts. It also provided functionality for scaling, dragging and animations, making it suitable for visualising financial data. The project team even extended the library to include additional chart types.
The project management approach included a combination of Scrum and Kanban. Scrum was used for dividing complex tasks into smaller, manageable parts and visualising the workflow, while Kanban was employed to ensure continuous development and delivery. This combination allowed the team to work on both long-term tasks and issues that arose during development, making the process more efficient.
The careful selection and utilisation of these digital platforms and technologies played a crucial role in successfully developing Android applications. They contributed to creating a user-friendly, feature-rich application for monitoring North American equities and aligning with the client’s objectives in the financial exchanges and data sector.
The Computools team was very rapidely operational despite the complexity of the situation and the need for the team to adapt to our development methodologies. The Computools team could also work very remotely with very good inter-communication with the SBFinance team ensuring good efficiency despite off-shoring.
Computools are experts and act professionally, with lots of guidance on technical recommendations and with easy to understand explanations of what the technical choices mean and why one can be a better website than another. As a result, the development was completed on time and exceeded our expectations. The feedback from our customers was very positive and compared to our previous results we doubled our turnover.
Computools was selected through an RFP process. They were shortlisted and selected from between 5 other suppliers. Computools has worked thoroughly and timely to solve all security issues and launch as agreed. Their expertise is impressive.