Mobile App Development

More than the screens. An app needs a design people understand at a glance, the app itself, the server it talks to, sign-in, notifications, payments where needed, and submission to the App Store and Play Store.

It also depends on the system behind it. A booking app is no use if bookings never reach your calendar. We treat the app and everything it connects to as one piece of work.

A cross-platform app uses one shared set of code for iOS and Android. We build these with Flutter or React Native, and they suit most business apps. One codebase means one set of fixes and updates that stay in step.

A native app is written separately for each phone system, in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. We choose native when the app leans heavily on device features or needs every bit of speed. Either way, we explain the choice and what it means for cost and upkeep before you decide.

Yes, and for many businesses that is the reason to build an app at all. A field team marking inspections, a driver confirming drop-offs or a sales rep taking orders in a market with poor coverage cannot wait for a signal.

We design offline behaviour at the start, because it is far harder to add later. We decide which data lives on the phone, which actions wait in a queue until the signal returns, and what happens when two people change the same record.

We start with who will use the app, where they will use it and which systems it must talk to. Then we map the screens and make a clickable prototype you can try on your own phone before any build begins.

The build runs in short cycles, each ending with a version you install and use. Before launch we test on real devices across versions and screen sizes, prepare the store listings and submit. You receive the source code, credentials and a recorded walkthrough.

It opens quickly and does its main job in a few taps. It copes with a poor connection and says plainly when something fails. It follows the conventions people expect on their own phone, and it sends only the notifications people want to read. Behind it, the code is documented, the store accounts are yours, and the next update does not depend on anyone's memory.

• Secure by default: sign-in, stored data and the connection to your server are protected from the first build, and the app asks only for the phone permissions it truly needs.
• Built to scale: the server behind the app is set up so more users means a bigger plan, not a rewrite.
• Tested before it ships: every release is installed and tried on real phones, not only on a simulator, before it goes to the stores.
• Looked after after launch: operating system updates arrive every year, and a Care Retainer keeps the app working through them.
• Small changes handled, not invoiced: a wording change on a screen or a fix to a store listing gets done, not quoted.
• Honest advice: if a well-built website would serve your users just as well, you hear that from us before you commit to an app.

If people would open it once a month, a fast website or a web app that installs from the browser usually does the job for less. If the idea is untested, start with an MVP or a Product Discovery Sprint before a large build. If you need a game or an app built around very specialised hardware, we may not be the right team, and we will say so.

Apps rarely stand alone. Apps that sell need payment gateway integration. Apps whose customers also talk to you on WhatsApp may need the WhatsApp Business API. Staff apps often feed business dashboards, and the servers behind them sit in Digital Infrastructure. One team builds and looks after the whole chain.

Tell us who will use the app and what they need to do. You can also read about everything we build under Application Development.