Lastmile app is an Android application that keep tracks of all the shipments and its products those are delivered within the Boonbox business model and its subsequent third party partners. Talking about Boonbox, it is a rural e-Commerce company functioning in more than 16 states all over India. Several third partner delivery partners have been tied up and in order to track down the status of the shipments Lasmile plays a crucial role.
App Features:
Keeps track of all the shipments and its subsequent products.
Delivery executives are tracked and navigated as per the instructions given through the application.
Customized camera for capturing proofs such as invoice, aadhar, voter ID and other documents,
Digital Scanner for fetching Aadhar card information.
OCR scan for fetching Voter ID number.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Android Developer:
Implemented OCR for scanning and retrieving Voter ID numbers using built-in device camera.
Built customized camera for capturing proofs documents such as Invoice, Aadhar card and other proofs captured during delivery by the executive. This customized camera proved to be a great implementation as it improved the quality of images captured.
Performance of application both in offline and online modes gradually improved by implementing new Android features such as Work Manager and Jobscheduler in place of normal Background Services.
Implemented a scalable application as it had been feasible with multiple delivery models and third party partners.
Linguistic localization have been implemented both dynamically coming from web service and local string files as well for more than 8 languages.
Location tracking using Google Transport tracker.
Back-end Developer:
Implemented all rest web services for the Lastmile application using PHP fetching data from MYSQL database.
Handled multiple API calls coming in from third party web services and performed synchronous calls with the API.
Used third party API to translate contents to 8 different languages.
Tools & Technologies used:
Android Studio 3.0
PHP web Service
OCR library for scanning
Retrofit
RXJava
Java8
Gson
MYSQL database
Language translator API
Tortoise SVN
SQLite
Awards:
Awarded for product design of the year 2018/19 at Inthree Access Annual event.