Case Study: Development Time Slashed by 50% for Leading Transport Company

MRW is Spain’s leading national and international express transport company. Powered by 10,000 people linked to the brand in over 1,300 franchises and 64 logistical platforms in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar, and Venezuela, MRW handles an average of 40 million parcel deliveries per year and ships to more than 200 countries and over 10,000 online stores.   A mission critical element of the company’s success is the MRWMobile app that supports 2,500 concurrent users in the field by helping them with process optimization, including delivery coordination. MRWMobile was developed by the company’s Portugal-based partner Moving2u, and after the successful creation of MRWMobile 3 for Windows, MRW wanted to expand to Android.   The app is used in the field for a range of functions, including proof of picking up deliveries in real time, receiving new work orders, and for rescheduling order pick ups and deliveries—all while using secure communications and local data encryption. To support these functions, the app needs to support a range of capabilities, including offline work, local storage, push sync, multi-threading, barcode scanning, photos, and signature capture. The app also incorporates geolocation, multilingual support, multiple user profiles, mobile payment, printing, document scanning, and internal communications with messages and tasks.   The magnitude of requirements coupled with budget and conflicting project roadblocks created time-to-market challenges. “Without Xamarin, it would have taken at least twice as long to have the full feature set of the app built and tested,” says Alberto Silva, R&D Manager at Moving2u.   “Xamarin is the right approach for any serious Android, iOS, or mobile cross-platform app development,” Alberto adds. “Even if you don’t plan to go cross-platform, the productivity of Xamarin in producing an app for a single platform in C# is unmatched.”   View the Case Study