Mobile Development
iOS and Android App Development for Southern California
An app is a bigger commitment than a website. It has two stores with two review processes, it has to keep working on a phone that just updated overnight, and it lives on a device where people notice immediately when something is slow or drains their battery. That is worth saying plainly before anyone spends money on one.
It is worth it when the job genuinely needs a phone: field staff capturing work offline and syncing later, customers who open the same thing several times a week, anything that depends on the camera, on location, or on push notifications reaching someone who is not sitting at a desk. When the job does not need those, a fast mobile web experience is usually the better investment, and we will tell you when that is the case.
We build for businesses across Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley, the Inland Empire, and Orange County, and we take the app the whole way — not just to a working build, but through store review and into the hands of the people who need it.
What Mobile App Development includes
An honest recommendation on native versus cross-platform
One shared codebase is cheaper to build and much cheaper to keep running, and it is the right answer for most business apps. Native is the right answer when the app leans hard on platform capabilities or when performance is the product. We make that call on your requirements rather than on what we would prefer to write.
Offline behaviour that was designed, not discovered
Phones lose signal in warehouses, basements, and half of the Inland Empire on the drive out. We decide up front what has to work with no connection, queue the work that cannot complete, and reconcile it when the device comes back online — including what happens when two people changed the same record.
Store submission handled
App Store and Play Store listings, screenshots, privacy nutrition labels, data-safety disclosures, review notes, and the rejection cycle when it happens. First submissions get rejected routinely for reasons that have nothing to do with your app being good. We deal with it.
A backend that will not become the bottleneck
Most app problems are API problems. We build the server side with the same care as the client: sensible authentication, an API that will not need breaking changes in six months, and a plan for the version of your app that is still on someone's phone two years from now.
Analytics that answer a business question
Not a dashboard of installs. Where people stop, which screens they revisit, what happens after a push notification, and whether the thing you built the app for is actually being done.
How the work runs
- STEP 1
Decide whether you need an app
A short, blunt conversation about what the app does that a mobile website cannot. If the answer is thin, we say so before either of us has spent anything.
- STEP 2
Prototype the core flow
We build the one journey the app exists for and put it on a real device in your hands early. Opinions formed while holding a phone are worth more than opinions formed looking at a screen full of mockups.
- STEP 3
Build, test on real hardware, submit
Development in cycles, tested on actual devices rather than only simulators, with TestFlight and internal-testing builds so your team uses it before your customers do.
- STEP 4
Launch and keep it alive
Apps decay. iOS and Android ship yearly releases that break things, and stores enforce new requirements on a schedule. Ongoing maintenance is part of the plan from day one, not a surprise in month nine.
What we build with
- React Native
- Swift
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- Push notifications
- Offline sync
Mobile App Development: common questions
Do we need separate iOS and Android apps?
Usually not two codebases. A cross-platform build ships to both stores from one project, which roughly halves both the build cost and the ongoing maintenance. We only recommend separate native apps when something in your requirements genuinely calls for it.
What does it cost to keep an app running after launch?
Budget for it every year. Apple and Google both ship annual OS releases and periodically change store requirements, and an app that is not updated eventually stops being accepted. Ongoing maintenance is far cheaper than the emergency rewrite that follows two years of neglect.
Can the app use the data from our website?
Yes, and it usually should. One backend serving both means one source of truth and no reconciling two systems that disagree. If your current site cannot serve an API, that becomes part of the scope and we will price it openly.
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