SERVICE — MOBILE
Apps built for the second year.
Mobile app development for iOS and Android
An app is the hardest thing to change after you ship it. Store review adds days, users sit on old versions for months, and a data model you regret becomes a migration. We work as a mobile app development company in Mumbai on the assumption the app outlives the launch post, and make the early decisions accordingly.
Part of Build and Transform — every engagement starts with an audit
Not every app is a consumer app
Some of the most valuable mobile work never reaches a store. It runs on a handful of devices inside one building and replaces a clipboard.
The quality control platform we built is an inspection app used on factory floors, where signal is unreliable and paper was the incumbent. It works offline, captures photographs against each finding, and syncs when it reconnects. Inspectors used to write findings on printed sheets and type them up again later; now they are recorded once. No store listing, no marketing site. Just a bottleneck that stopped being one.
What we build
Cross-platform apps
One codebase across iOS and Android where the product does not demand otherwise, which is most of the time. Faster to build, cheaper to maintain, and close enough to native that your users will not be running comparisons.
Native where it earns it
When an app leans hard on the camera, background processing, or platform-specific hardware, cross-platform stops paying. We will tell you which category you are in during scoping, not in month three.
Operational and internal apps
Tools for teams on a floor, in a warehouse, or in the field. The constraints differ from consumer work: shared devices, gloves, bad lighting, patchy connectivity. So does the definition of good.
Camera and device features
Capture, on-device processing, barcode and document scanning, and the AI layer on top where it applies. This is where mobile does what a web app cannot.
Offline-first behaviour
Local state, queued actions, and sane conflict resolution wherever connectivity is unreliable. Retrofitting offline support into an app that assumed connectivity is close to a rewrite, so we decide it at the start.
Release and store handling
Build pipelines, signing, staged rollouts, crash reporting, and the review process itself. We run submissions under your accounts and hand over a release process your team can operate without us.
How we work on this
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Get the data model right first
On mobile this is the decision you cannot cheaply undo. Users on old versions keep talking to your API long after you have moved on. We spend real time here, which is why we ask uncomfortable questions about your roadmap early.
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Test on the devices people actually hold
Not just the newest handset. Real devices in real conditions, which for an operational app means the actual floor it will be used on, in the lighting it will be used in.
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Ship in stages, watch what happens
Staged rollouts with crash reporting and usage instrumentation from version one. A regression then reaches a small fraction of users instead of all of them, and you hear about it from a dashboard, not a review.
Where we have done this
Written up in full, numbers included.
FAQ
Questions we get asked about this.
Native or cross-platform, which do we need?
Cross-platform for most products, and we say that as people who have built both. If your app is mainly screens, forms, lists, and API calls, one codebase serves you better and costs meaningfully less to maintain. Go native when you are leaning on hardware, heavy background work, or platform features that lag in cross-platform frameworks.
How much does mobile app development cost?
Two things move the number most: how many distinct user roles there are, and how many systems the app talks to. Screen count, which is what most quotes are built on, matters far less. We scope in phases so a first release can be useful before the full feature set exists.
Do you handle App Store and Play Store submission?
Yes, including the parts nobody enjoys: signing, review responses, privacy declarations, staged rollouts. We do it under your developer accounts so you own the listings outright, and document the release process so your team can run it afterwards.
How long does an app take?
Most engagements run 4–12 weeks from kickoff to a first release, depending on how much backend has to be built alongside it. An app talking to APIs that already exist moves considerably faster than one where the server side is new work too.
Can you work on an app we already have?
Usually. We start by reading the codebase and the crash reports, then give you a straight read on its condition, including when that read is that it needs less work than you feared. Taking over someone else's app is normal work, not a special case.
Other services
Start with the audit
Tell us how your operation runs today and where it hurts. We will tell you what the audit would cover and what you would have at the end of it — before you commit to anything.
Start with the audit Fixed scope, fixed price — you keep the report either way