UVRento—Online Product Rental Application Using Cross-Platform Service

According to the current situation of high demand for mobile applications, combined with the mainstream and the enterprise activities (Yang and Zhang in Computing technology, industrial information integration, [1]), the emergence of E-commerce has been playing a vital role in each and every sector of our daily lives. The number of new and different product developments increasing each year, triggers probability of previous technology users, especially in electronic gadgets. There are at least 40% of people who change their smartphones, laptops or any other electronic devices in a minimum of 2–3 years (by social interactions). Hence the cost of living is increasing steadily. For instance, cost of living in Bangalore in the year 2015 was around 5000Rs–6000Rs, and now it has been increased around to 7000–10,000 per month ((B)Grady Booch Rational Santa Clara, California in object-oriented analysis and design, [2]). Hence, Rental applications may reduce cost of living without affecting the mandatory life choices and their preferring lifestyle. This paper gives a detailed hands-on experience with the Rental Platform, UVRento, and how it can be implemented using E-commerce model application services. UVRento is an application developed using Ionic Framework with Firebase as its backend. Ionic being a cross-platform framework, it makes easier to develop powerful and efficient applications for every major platform running out there (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc.). While Firebase along with Google’s security provides the database facility which is more robust, more reliable and easy to integrate with Ionic Framework (Ionic framework document, [3]; Learn firebase—tutorials, [4]).