Mobile App Development

Depends on three things. (1) Performance ceiling — heavy graphics, AR, or hardware integration favors native. (2) Team budget — one codebase across iOS + Android (React Native, Flutter) costs less to build and maintain than two parallel native teams. (3) Platform-specific UX — apps that need to feel deeply native on each platform favor native. For most product startups, React Native or Flutter is the right answer. For performance-critical or hardware-heavy apps, native. We help you decide during discovery, not by reflexively defaulting to either.

Yes. We manage the full submission process — App Store Connect setup, Google Play Console setup, app metadata, screenshots, review responses, and the resubmission cycles when Apple or Google flag something. We've shipped through Apple's review process enough times to know how to write rejection responses that work.

v1 cross-platform app with standard features: 12–20 weeks. Native iOS + native Android in parallel: 16–28 weeks. Complex consumer app with custom backend and integrations: 6+ months. Most timelines blow up because of feature creep mid-build — we hold the line on scope changes by pricing them as additions, not absorbing them.

Yes — and this is the part most agencies underprice or skip. iOS and Android push major OS updates yearly that break things. Apple and Google change submission policies constantly. Devices fragment. We offer Managed Retainers specifically for ongoing app work — OS-update fixes, new feature builds, performance tuning, store metadata updates.

Yes. Most apps need a backend — auth, user data, sync, push notifications, payments, analytics. We build backends-for-mobile in Node.js, Python, or whatever stack fits the product. Or we integrate with Firebase or Supabase for faster time-to-market. Or we connect to an existing backend you already have. Backend strategy is part of discovery, not an afterthought.

Yes. App modernization is a meaningful portion of our work — taking apps off abandoned frameworks (Ionic, Cordova, old Xamarin), legacy native codebases, or unsupported tech and rebuilding on a maintainable stack. The first step is always an audit: current code quality, dependency state, store-submission risks, and what migration actually buys you.

Push: OneSignal, Firebase Cloud Messaging, or native APNs/FCM depending on requirements. In-app purchases: StoreKit (iOS) + Google Play Billing (Android), with revenue split and subscription management handled. Analytics: Mixpanel, Amplitude, Firebase Analytics, or whatever your team already uses. These are standard integrations — scoped during discovery so they're in the build from day one.