The official app for the largest chain
of filling stations in Oman
About
About
With 180 filling stations, the client is Oman’s pioneering distributor of petroleum products and related services. Peerbits developed the client’s official app which, leveraging on location services, helps find the nearby filling station to the user. User can click a station on the map and navigate to it.
In addition, the mobile app gives information about the client’s products, services and facilities available at their filling stations. The client’s upcoming events & ongoing promotions are also available on the app to view and participate. Customers can provide their feedback to help improve the products and services.
Challenges
Challenge
The client app, upon registration, stores users’ driver’s license. An integral feature of the app is to notify a user when his driver’s license is about to expire. The challenge augmented when we realized license expiry date tends to differ for user to user.
The app upon registration was to store vehicle and mileage data. However, with so much data on the fly, it soon became evident we have to do something about storing it.
Filtering results to a region, location and sub-filtering them to services/features/facilities.
Visual Style
Design
To hold the innovative mood of the app’s overall visual style, we selected a color palette which, as you can see, includes various shades of grey with light colours here and there
Before the visual design stage, we put together several moodboards to define the app’s visual style.
Solution
Solution
To make sure The app users receive a notification when their driver’s license is about to expire, we employed Android Local Push Notifications—Alarm Manager to set the expiry notification.
To store the vehicle and mileage data created the local SQLite DB and to manage complex filter, we used SOL query with app code.
Nearby stations
An app user can not only find a filling station near him, he can also navigate to its location and take a look at the services, products and facilities available at the station.
Mileage Calculator
The app calculates mileage of a vehicle based on the number of miles it travelled. It calculates number of miles it travelled and how much fuel it was refilled with at an The app filling station.
License Expiry Notifications
Omanis often forget to renew their driver’s licenses on time and are left with no choice but to pool a car or hail a taxi, which can be costlier. The app notifies a user when the license is about to expire.
Rating and Feedback
Customers’ feedback matters more than anything be it a grocery store or a filling station. The app has many station and each time an app user visits one, the app prompts him to rate the experience.
Technology Stack
Technology
Android Studio
Swift
Xcode
SQLite
Retrofit with RxJava
Butterknife
Alamofire
Glide
Results
Results
The app reduced time and fuel people waste while searching for a fuel station. The app users became safer and more considerate drivers. Driver’s License expiry notification assured they renew their licenses on time.
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