![]() ![]() We were in June and all of these projects should be launched still in that same year. Meanwhile, the web team would refactor their front-end so they wouldn’t have important releases with new features for a while. The back-end, API’s, databases and so on would be refactored. Then an opportunity has arisen with a bigger project we were starting in the company. The react project was in the paper but not sure when we would do it. One of the main advantages, write one code that could be used to both apps. So we started to give a look to a few other technologies and React Native was the one that seemed more promising. Re-work due lack of alignment between mobile and website.Balancing tech debt, bugs, improvements and features was a big problem. It was difficult to have time for technical debt without slowing down the pace even more. Both iOS and Android projects were in need of lots of refactorings.The constant feeling of “…Mobile is slow / This feature will be shipped later in mobile / We can think about this in mobile later…”, although it was a fact, it was detrimental to the team’s self-esteem. ![]() In addition, our Android and iOS app also had significantly differences between themselves. ![]() The apps didn’t have the same features as in our website and even the look and feel was out of date.Besides that, features on our website were being shipped way faster.Īt the end with this situation repeating for a while we had: That means, every time we were going to build a feature, we had two different products to deal with (Androidd & iOS). Our mobile team had only two developers, one for iOS and another for Android. Users can access our product through the website or the mobile app (Android / iOS) Why rewrite the apps? Passei Direto is an student network with over 15 million students sharing study resources, course notes, test preps, homework help and more. ![]() Now I can take the time to write down how was the entire process, what we learned on the way and a few reflections from the product side of this project. Half a year later and after lots of plannings, retros, design reviews, checkpoints and other tons of meetings. ![]()
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