Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Marketplace App with Delphi

Our team was contacted by a Nigeria-based startup that was building a mobile marketplace app for the African region. Initially, they planned to launch a solution in Nigeria and then expand it to other African countries. At that time, the technological development of the region was gaining momentum. However, the market still didn’t have a sufficient number of reliable digital solutions that could fully address the everyday needs of potential users. The launch of this application was expected to change the situation.

It was planned that this mobile marketplace would unite different sellers from Nigeria (and later from the entire region) and provide customers with a simple and fast way to buy different products directly from their smartphones.

When we received a request from this client, the team already had a backend part of their solution. However, they had problems with the frontend development. Initially, they wanted to build a native app for Android devices and chose Kotlin for it. Nevertheless, the development process required much more time and money than they expected. As a result, they needed to stop the development and start looking for an alternative option.