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Mobile App Development

A mobile app is worth building when your users are away from a desk — a delivery rider confirming a drop, a field agent recording a visit, a customer placing a repeat order. We build Android and iOS apps that connect to your real business data, work on unreliable networks, and are maintained after they reach the store.

What changes for your business

  • Field staff record work where it happens instead of at the end of the day
  • Customers reorder and track without calling the office
  • Head office sees activity in real time, not from a written report
  • One data source behind both the web system and the app

Technology we use

  • Flutter
  • Android
  • iOS
  • React Native
  • REST APIs
  • Firebase
Why teams call us

When a mobile app is actually the answer

A responsive website covers most cases. These four are the ones where it genuinely does not.

A team that is never at a desk

Field officers, riders and technicians collect information on paper and hand it in at the end of the day, by which point half of it is illegible or missing.

What replaces it

  • Data captured where the work happens
  • Photos, GPS and signature on the spot
  • Works offline, syncs later

Nobody sees the update in time

The status changed an hour ago, but the person who needed to act on it will not open their email until tomorrow morning.

What replaces it

  • Push notifications that arrive instantly
  • Action taken from the notification itself
  • Read and response tracking

Customers who call for everything

Balance, status, booking, receipt — every routine question becomes a phone call, and the phone line becomes the bottleneck.

What replaces it

  • Self-service in the customer's pocket
  • Booking and payment without a call
  • Support load drops on its own

The job needs the phone itself

Barcode scanning, camera, location, fingerprint, offline storage — the things a browser tab either cannot do or does badly.

What replaces it

  • Native camera, GPS and scanner access
  • Biometric login
  • Local storage that survives no signal

What's included

Android and iOS from a single codebase, or native where it is genuinely needed

Screen-by-screen UI/UX design reviewed with you before development

Secure API layer connecting the app to your web system

Offline handling and sync for field and delivery use

Push notifications, in-app updates and versioning

Play Store and App Store submission, including store assets

Crash reporting and usage analytics after launch

Scope

What the work covers

Design, build, store submission and the updates that follow — for Android, iOS or both from one codebase.

Android & iOS from one codebase

One build pipeline for both platforms, so a feature ships to every user at the same time instead of twice at twice the cost.

Offline-first data

Work continues where the signal does not, and syncs cleanly when it returns — with conflicts resolved by rules, not by luck.

Push notifications

Targeted, scheduled and event-triggered notifications, with delivery and open tracking behind them.

Device features

Camera, barcode and QR scanning, GPS, biometric login, file upload and local caching, wired in properly.

API & backend

The server side the app talks to, including authentication, versioning and a way to change the API without breaking old installs.

Store release & updates

Play Store and App Store submission, review handling, staged rollout and the update cycle after launch.

What we build

What we build with it

Apps that people use at work, in the field or on the move — not brochures with an icon.

Field force apps

Visit logs, order taking, attendance with location, and photo evidence from officers who are never in the office.

Customer apps

Accounts, bookings, orders, payment and support in the customer's own hand instead of on your hotline.

Rider & delivery apps

Assignment, route, status updates, COD collection and proof of delivery, working through weak signal.

Sales & CRM apps

Lead capture, follow-up reminders and pipeline updates from wherever the meeting happened.

Inspection & survey apps

Structured checklists, photo capture, signatures and offline submission for audits and site visits.

Internal staff apps

Attendance, leave, approvals and notices for staff who do not sit at a computer during their shift.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need separate apps for Android and iOS?

Usually not. For most business apps a single cross-platform codebase gives you both stores at close to the cost of one, with the same features and design. We recommend native only when the app depends heavily on device hardware or platform-specific behaviour.

Can the app work with our existing software?

Yes, provided the existing system can expose data through an API. If it cannot, we build that API layer as part of the project so the app reads and writes the same records your team already uses.

Who publishes the app on the stores?

We handle the submission, but the developer accounts should be registered in your company's name so you own the listing, the reviews and the ability to publish updates independently.

Tell us what you need

Send your requirement and we will reply with a clear plan, a timeline and a cost — usually within one business day.