Mechanic to You

In September of 2022, the team connected with Mechanic to You after reviewing their post on seeking a team to build a mobile application for their business. Since 2009, Mechanic to You provided auto repair services to Ottawan at the customer’s home parking, on the curbside or from Mechanic to You’s garage. The use of smart phone devices has become the norm in everyday life and in that it lies the opportunity to automate the process in receiving requests for services and providing jobs to subscribed auto mechanics.
The team built the base of the Android mobile application around a framework that is consistent with the client’s business requirements. The MtY app consists of two parts, the mobile application and a back-end application holding business information that drives the activities around completing a service request. The MtY app is a user friendly application that emphasizes on an appealing design that blends smoothly with components that dynamically respond to the user’s requirements. As with any business that wishes to expand digitally, a database system and a system to exchange information is required which the team built. The back-end application is the key to promoting the solution that Mechanic to You offer by delivering and updating business information through a representational state transfer(REST) application.
The journey in developing the MtY app has been rich with real world experience that allowed experimentation in a heuristic approach to practice under an educational environment. The team acquired both hard skills and soft skills through corresponding with the client, keeping up with group meetings, forming a mode to expressing ideas and establishing the criteria to reaching a consensus. On hard skills, the team learned to use new tools and framework, such as, extensible application markup language(XAML), Xamarin cross-platform integrated development environment(IDE) and many application programming interface (API) available on NuGet package manager.
Lastly, the team would like to express our thanks to the client and Algonquin College for facilitating the grounds for our learning process. It’s our honour to have participated through-out the phases of the project from the planning stage to proudly presenting our successes on the MtY app.