Case study
FWD SG
FWD's life insurance app for Singapore, and the Android side I owned through its biggest rewrite.
- Role
- Senior Android Developer
- Studio
- Codigo
- Period
- Oct 2022 – Oct 2023
- Scale
- 100K+ downloads · 4.7★
FWD SG is the life insurance app for Singapore. I owned the Android side for a year, building the policy and claims features, splitting the app into modules, and cutting load time along the way.
- Policy viewing
- Claims with document upload
- Biometric login
- Multi-module split
- Startup performance
100K+
downloads · 4.7★
100K+ installs, 4.7-star app
FWD SG is one of the bigger apps in the portfolio by Play Store reach — 100K+ downloads, 4.7 star average. The features I built are the ones people use most on the app.
~25%
faster cold start
Cut app load time by about 25%
Deprecated libraries were the obvious weight, but the real wins were the slow startup code paths. Replaced the worst offenders and the app got to its first screen about 25% faster.
1 → many
modules
Split a monolith so the team could move in parallel
FWD SG started life as a single-module app, and parallel work was painful. I split it into modules by feature, which let the team merge into different surfaces at the same time without colliding.
Stack
Language & UI
Architecture
Quality
Security