Mobile Apps
Your idea deserves to be in your users' pockets. We build polished iOS and Android apps using React Native — one codebase, native feel, half the cost.
What's included
End-to-end mobile development
iOS & Android from One Codebase
React Native lets us ship to both platforms simultaneously — saving time and budget without sacrificing quality.
Native Device Integrations
Camera, GPS, biometrics, push notifications, Bluetooth — we integrate the device features your app needs.
Offline-First Experiences
Apps that work reliably even with patchy connectivity, with smart sync when the network returns.
Push Notifications
Timely, relevant notifications that keep users engaged — not the annoying kind.
App Store & Play Store Releases
We handle submission, review guidelines, metadata, and everything needed for a smooth launch.
Expo-Powered OTA Updates
Ship fixes and improvements to users instantly — no waiting for store review cycles.
How we work
From idea to App Store
Discovery
We map out your core user flows and decide what truly belongs in v1.
Prototype
A working prototype you can put in real users' hands before we build everything.
Build
Iterative development, tested on real devices throughout — not just simulators.
Ship
Store submission, approval support, and post-launch monitoring included.
In depth
How we think about mobile development
Building a mobile app that feels genuinely native, works offline, and survives store review takes more than picking a framework. Here's how we approach the decisions that determine whether users actually keep the app installed.
Why React Native still wins for most products
The native-versus-cross-platform debate has mostly settled in practice: for the large majority of consumer and business apps, React Native delivers a native-quality experience while sharing 80–90% of the codebase between iOS and Android. That translates directly into a smaller budget, a shorter timeline, and — just as important — a single team that understands the entire app instead of two teams that need to be kept in sync feature by feature.
Fully native Swift or Kotlin development still makes sense in specific cases: apps that lean heavily on cutting-edge platform APIs the day they ship, or performance-critical experiences like AR, complex 3D, or heavy real-time processing. Outside of those, the cost of maintaining two separate native codebases rarely pays for itself.
What 'native feel' actually requires
Cross-platform doesn't mean generic. Getting an app to feel truly native means respecting each platform's own conventions — iOS's navigation patterns and haptics feel different from Android's Material motion and back-button behaviour, and users notice immediately when an app ignores that. It also means smooth 60fps animations, gesture handling that responds instantly, and layouts that adapt properly across the wide range of screen sizes both platforms ship in.
We test on real devices throughout development, not just simulators, because things like keyboard behaviour, camera performance, and background task handling behave differently on actual hardware than they do in an emulator.
Offline-first isn't optional anymore
Mobile users move between wifi, patchy cellular signal, and complete dead zones constantly — a subway ride, an elevator, a rural area. An app that breaks or loses data the moment connectivity drops feels broken, even if the underlying feature works fine. We design data flows around local-first storage with background sync, optimistic UI updates, and clear conflict resolution when data changes on both the device and the server before a sync completes.
Getting this right up front is far cheaper than retrofitting it after users start reporting lost form submissions or duplicated orders.
Shipping to the App Store and Play Store
Store review isn't just a formality — Apple in particular rejects apps for reasons that have nothing to do with code quality: incomplete metadata, unclear privacy disclosures, or UI patterns that violate their human interface guidelines. We handle the entire submission process, including screenshots, store listings, privacy manifests, and responding to review feedback, so a preventable rejection doesn't add two weeks to your launch.
Once you're live, Expo's OTA update capability lets us ship JavaScript-level fixes and improvements directly to users without waiting for another store review cycle — useful for the inevitable small bugs and copy tweaks that surface in the first weeks after launch.
FAQ
Common questions
For most products, React Native delivers a native-quality experience at roughly half the cost and timeline — because you're building one app instead of two. We recommend native development only when your app has very specific platform requirements that React Native can't meet.
Yes. We've taken over, refactored, and improved many existing React Native projects. We'll assess the codebase and give you an honest picture of what's there before we commit to anything.
A focused MVP typically takes 8–16 weeks depending on complexity. We'll scope this honestly in our first conversation — no inflated timelines, no surprise scope creep.
Yes, fully. We manage the entire submission process — screenshots, descriptions, metadata, review responses, and anything else needed to get your app live on both stores.
Have an app idea?
Share what you're building and we'll map out the smartest path to your first launch.
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