Mobile app development — native quality on both stores, from one codebase

Two things sink mobile projects, and neither one is the code. The first is the decision itself: a business funds an app its customers were never going to install, when an installable mobile web experience would have done the job for a fraction of the money. The second is the year after launch, when a store rejects an update, a signing certificate expires, and the backend belongs to a vendor who has moved on.

We work at both ends, and we build the backend ourselves. The API your app talks to is not someone else's problem at 11 PM.

What mobile app development means in our hands

We'll tell you when you don't need an app. A native app earns its place when you need the camera, background location, offline work, biometrics, or a habit that push notifications genuinely support. When the honest answer is "people will open this twice a year", we build a progressive web app instead: installable, push-capable, no store review, one thing to maintain. That conversation happens before anyone writes a proposal.

Cross-platform, held to native standards. React Native or Flutter gives you both stores from one codebase, and we hold it to platform behaviour: correct navigation, the Android back button doing what Android users expect, animation that keeps its frame rate on a mid-range phone rather than the flagship on our desk. We test on real, cheap devices.

Offline-first, not offline-someday. Basements, job sites, lifts, trains. Our apps write locally first and sync when the network returns, with queued writes and a conflict policy decided during design rather than discovered in production.

What a typical engagement includes

• Platform decision first: native, cross-platform, or PWA, with the reasoning and the cost difference in writing
• Product and interface design for both platforms (see /services/ui-ux-design)
• The build in React Native or Flutter, typed end to end
• Offline-first data layer with background sync and conflict handling
• Push notifications and deep links wired to real triggers, not broadcast blasts
• Backend and APIs in-house: auth, database, payments, admin, integrations
• App Store and Google Play submission: listings, screenshots, privacy declarations, review responses, signing set up inside your own accounts
• Release management: staged rollouts, over-the-air updates where the platform allows, crash reporting, versioning
• Handover documentation, with ongoing releases available on a Care Plan

The stack and the approach

• Cross-platform: React Native (Expo) or Flutter, chosen for the app rather than for our convenience
• PWA path: Next.js 16 and TypeScript, installable and push-enabled, on the same stack as our webapps
• Backend: Postgres with Drizzle, Supabase auth with row-level security, typed APIs shared with your web product so the two never drift
• Payments: Stripe or Razorpay, with the store billing rules for digital goods handled correctly
• Quality: testing across old and new hardware, WCAG 2.1 AA including VoiceOver and TalkBack, crash and performance monitoring from day one

What this looks like in practice

A field operations app. Technicians, drivers, or inspectors working where the signal isn't: jobs, forms, photos, and signatures captured offline and synced the moment a connection returns, feeding the same database as the office dashboard or CRM.

A customer-facing app on top of an existing business. Accounts, bookings or orders, tracking, saved details, and push that brings people back, sitting on the web product or store you already run. This shape often starts as a PWA and graduates to the stores once usage proves the habit is real.

Pricing

Mobile work is scoped per project. A PWA and a two-store app with offline sync and a new backend behind it are different builds, and a price list flattering both would be dishonest. Tell us what the app has to do; after a short call you get a fixed-price scope in writing. Contact us for a quote.

Ready to build?

We answer every brief within four business hours. Bring the users and the problem rather than a feature list, and the first thing you'll hear back is whether an app is the right shape for it at all. Recent work lives at /work.

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