Hemfrid Employee App

At the very beginning, Hemfrid was a single mobile app for both customers and employees. However, such a solution only complicated the development and, as a result, the use of the application by ordinary users. For example, in order to fix some bugs on the employee side, it was necessary to release an update for two user groups at once and ask all of the users to install a new version of the Hemfrid app - which, of course, didn't make sense and caused confusion among the customers, since they didn't see any changes.

Thus, together with the client, our Dev and Deliver software house team has decided not only to rewrite and improve the application code, but also to rethink the old product.

We have come to the conclusion to make two separate applications following the best practices of similar mobile apps such as Uber, Bolt or Booksy. Spliting the Hemfrid app has brought our clients and their users a lot of benefits. At the moment, code and branding updates can be done separately in each app without any impact on the other. A specialized app also solves the issue with access to various features available only to customers or only to employees.

The application is built with the latest React Native. Besides, to improve user experience, we have used the React Native Reanimated library to create in-app animations for smoother transitions between screens and elements.