Mobile
Android App Development
Android is the platform that decides whether a product works in India. We build for the mid-range hardware, uneven connectivity and wide OS spread that most users actually have.
The short answer
What is android app development?
Android app development means building for the widest hardware range in software. Screen sizes, chipsets, memory, manufacturer skins and OS versions vary enormously, and in India the median device is considerably weaker than the phone most developers test on.
That shapes everything: keeping the install size down, managing memory carefully, handling background work within the restrictions each Android version adds, and testing on real mid-range hardware rather than an emulator on a fast laptop.
Scope
What we build
Native Kotlin apps
Built with Jetpack Compose and the modern Android toolkit.
Play Store releases
App bundles, staged rollouts, and the policy compliance the store requires.
Offline-capable apps
Local storage and background sync for users who lose signal regularly.
Enterprise Android
Managed device deployments, kiosk mode and internal distribution.
Hardware integration
Camera, barcode scanning, Bluetooth peripherals, printers and location services.
Modernisation
Bringing older Java or View-based apps onto Kotlin and current APIs.
Why teams call us
Business problems this solves
If more than two of these describe your situation, the problem is usually structural rather than cosmetic.
- An app that runs acceptably on a flagship and badly on everything else
- Background work silently killed by newer Android versions
- Install size high enough to deter downloads on limited storage
- Play Store rejections over policy and permissions
- Battery drain complaints in reviews
- An old codebase that cannot meet the current target API requirement
How it works
Our process
- 01
Device profile
Which Android versions and hardware tiers your users actually have — from data, not assumptions.
- 02
Architecture
Module structure, state management, offline strategy and background work design.
- 03
Interface
Material Design applied with intent, adapted to your brand rather than left generic.
- 04
Build
Kotlin and Compose, with instrumented tests on the behaviour that matters.
- 05
Device testing
Real hardware across the tiers in your device profile, including low-memory conditions.
- 06
Play release
App bundle, staged rollout, Vitals monitoring and iteration.
What you get
Deliverables and features
Deliverables
- Android application in Kotlin
- Signed release bundle and signing key handover
- Play Store listing and submission
- Crash reporting and Android Vitals monitoring
- Instrumented and unit test suite
- Source code and build documentation
Features
- Jetpack Compose interfaces
- Offline storage with background synchronisation
- Push notifications via Firebase Cloud Messaging
- Biometric and secure credential storage
- Camera, barcode and document scanning
- Location, maps and geofencing
- In-app updates and staged rollouts
- Deep links and app shortcuts
Stack
Technologies we use
We choose tools for the next three years, not the next three months — and we document why, so your next developer is not guessing.
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Coroutines
- Room
- Retrofit
- Hilt
- WorkManager
- Firebase
- Play Console
How we think about it
Our approach
Design approach
Android has its own conventions and users notice when they are ignored — back navigation behaviour, share sheets, notification channels, permission timing. We follow Material Design as a foundation and adapt it to your brand, rather than shipping either a default-looking app or an iOS design ported across.
Performance and security
We profile on mid-range hardware, not flagships: cold start, frame timing during scroll, memory under pressure and battery cost of background work. Android Vitals is monitored after release, because Play uses those numbers in store ranking as well as showing them to you.
Budget
What drives the cost
We do not publish price ranges, because a number given before we understand the work is not a real one. These are the factors that actually move it.
- Range of Android versions and device tiers to support
- Depth of offline and background sync requirements
- Hardware integrations such as scanners, printers or Bluetooth peripherals
- Whether an iOS build is also planned, which may favour cross-platform
- Enterprise distribution and device management needs
After a discovery conversation we give a fixed scope and a fixed number before any work begins.
Related
Services that go with this
Mobile App Development
Android and iOS applications, plus the backend, APIs and admin tooling that make them work. Built once in Flutter or React Native where that suits the product, natively where it does not.
iOS App Development
iOS users are a smaller share of the Indian market and a disproportionate share of spend. They also notice detail. We build for both facts.
Flutter App Development
One codebase, both platforms, and an interface that renders identically on each. Flutter suits products where the design is your own rather than the platform's.
Custom Software Development
Internal platforms, portals, dashboards and workflow tools modelled on how your operation actually runs — not on how packaged software assumes it should.
Questions
Android App Development — frequently asked
Which Android versions should we support?
It should come from your own analytics, or from India-specific distribution data if the app is new. Supporting too far back adds cost for a shrinking audience; cutting too aggressively excludes real users. We set the floor deliberately.
Kotlin or Java?
Kotlin. It is the language Google develops Android against, and new libraries assume it. We only work in Java when maintaining an existing codebase where a rewrite is not justified.
Should we build native Android or cross-platform?
If Android is your only platform, or you need deep hardware integration, native is a reasonable choice. If iOS is also planned and the interface is fairly standard, Flutter or React Native usually costs less over the product's life.
How do we handle Play Store policy?
Permissions, data safety declarations and target API requirements are designed in from the start rather than discovered at submission. Google also changes these rules regularly, which is part of why apps need ongoing maintenance.
Can you work with our existing Android app?
Yes. We start with a code review covering architecture, dependency health, test coverage and target API status, then recommend whether to extend it or rebuild.
Who owns the signing key?
You do. Losing an app signing key is close to unrecoverable, so we hand it over securely and document the release process.
Start here
Ready to talk about android app development?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and what you are working with. We will come back with an honest view of scope, approach and whether we are the right fit.