SfridoStore
Hybrid mobile app for the building materials marketplace, promoting sustainable construction and savings through easy and fast buying and selling.
The Project
Arturium commissioned us to develop the SfridoStore mobile app, an innovative marketplace dedicated to buying and selling reclaimed building materials. The goal was to make a platform accessible from smartphones and tablets that promotes circular economy in the construction sector, allowing professionals and DIY enthusiasts to buy and sell new materials, leftovers from construction sites or renovations.
The client wanted a mobile solution that would integrate seamlessly with the existing website, offering a native and fluid user experience on both iOS and Android, while maintaining ease of updating and content consistency across platforms.
The Challenge
The main challenge was to create a mobile application that combined native navigation with SfridoStore website content, ensuring optimal performance and a user experience indistinguishable from a fully native app. We needed to ensure that users could browse listings, view product details, perform searches and manage their transactions smoothly, without perceiving the use of a WebView.
A further challenge was to guarantee reduced development times and the ability to publish simultaneously on the App Store and Google Play, maintaining a single, easily maintainable codebase.
The Solution
We developed SfridoStore as a hybrid mobile app using React Native and Expo, implementing a WebView-based architecture with native navigation. This solution allowed us to leverage the existing website while maintaining native device functionalities.
The app's main features include:
- Optimized native navigation for iOS and Android
- WebView integration for marketplace content display
- Smooth and responsive user experience
- Complete access to building materials trading features
- Adaptive interface synchronized with the website
- Optimized loading performance management
Technologies
For SfridoStore development we used React Native as the main framework, which allowed us to create a performant cross-platform application with a single codebase. Expo facilitated the build and deployment process, accelerating release times on both stores.
WebView integration was implemented intelligently to ensure natural navigation and immediate transitions between app sections, maintaining the quality standards that distinguish our iOS and Android apps.
Results
We delivered to Arturium a complete mobile app, published on both the App Store and Google Play, which extends SfridoStore's reach to mobile users. The hybrid solution significantly reduced development time and costs compared to two separate native apps, while maintaining a quality user experience.
The app now allows construction professionals and DIY enthusiasts to access the marketplace directly from their mobile devices, facilitating the buying and selling of reclaimed materials and contributing to a more sustainable and economically advantageous construction model.
