Super App Part 1 - The Fundamentals

Mobile Development is an unavoidable digital strategy for most enterprises. It needs vision, focus, and experience to develop software with longevity, sustainability, maintenance and change management at a reasonable cost for the organisation and if there is infinite time anyone can learn and write software.

This book is for those readers who aspire to know about mobile application developments for building a Super App where the end goal is to create a mental model. The book is a part of the Super App series. Reading it will rewire the reader's thought process with ideas that act as recipes and perspectives that will help the individual to lay the foundation and do the groundwork for the Super App mobile application. In addition, the book covers the essentials required to be understood by readers who are in the driver's seat for a mobile application project.

Reading this book prepares an individual to think in a direction which is close to the ground realities for the approaches required for building a Super App. Furthermore, the book brings together the experience gained from multiple projects over the past ten years, which the reader can capitalize on and add to their knowledge base.

The book presents the reader with the fundamentals for the development and design philosophies of the Super App. It starts with exploring what a Super App is, and the narrative follows where the essential technology and practical wisdom for the approaches can be applied while building a Super App. The book applies two use cases to drive the narrative. The first is a hypothetical mobile application from an organisation providing multiple services like cab booking, online book purchase, cycle renting and seven other services. The second is a finance application that supports multiple regions.

To benefit fully from this book, it is recommended that the reader should meet the following prerequisites:
1. Hands-on experience in developing a mobile application on at least one platform.
2. Knowledge of architectural patterns used in mobile development.
3. Experience in creating libraries and reusable packages for mobile applications.
4. Understand the terminology used in the development of a mobile application life-cycle.

About the Author: Sreejith K Rajendran, a passionate technology leader in iOS mobile development, has more than a decade of development expertise along with an exposure of working with multiple organisations and industry veterans. Mobile application development has been a focus area for Sreejith as a Software Engineer. His experience gives him the advantage of sharing his point of view on things that have worked out and those that have failed. He has encountered all these while building scalable mobile applications for thriving business enterprises.

His expertise on engineering practices and thought leadership inherent from the organisation, along with the collated experiences from multiple projects and organisations has been pivotal in shaping his tech acumen in this diverse tech landscape.

Sreejith’s areas of expertise are:
• Native iOS Application Development (Swift & Objective C)
• Developing enterprise applications MBass integration
• Developing applications in cross-platform Frameworks like Xamarin, Flutter, and PhoneGap
• Developing mobile applications in banking, insurance, trading, and retail domains
• Developing IOT-based applications using BLE, Onvif Protocol-supported IP cameras, and indoor navigation using iBeacons

The exposure and technical acumen cultivated over the past decade have motivated and pushed Sreejith to embrace the path of an Author with the intent of helping the broader community by sharing his knowledge. The sizable mobile community could leverage from his experiences to ponder, challenge, and innovate without reinventing solutions for an already-solved problem statement.