Nearshore Mobile App Development

It depends on your requirements, not on what's easier to staff. Native (Swift/Kotlin) makes sense when you need deep hardware integration — Bluetooth, camera APIs, ARKit, complex animations — or when your app's primary differentiator is platform feel. React Native and Flutter are strong choices for products with shared business logic across platforms, teams that need to iterate quickly, and apps where the UI is standard rather than bespoke. We assess your use case and give you an honest recommendation with tradeoffs before scoping, not a default answer.

A focused MVP with core flows, backend integration, and store submission typically takes 3–5 months with a dedicated two-to-three engineer team. Full-featured consumer or enterprise apps are 6–12 months depending on backend complexity, third-party integrations, and feature scope. We price on monthly team cost — senior engineers are typically in the range clients expect from a quality nearshore firm — and give you a written scope with timeline before you commit. We don't do fixed-bid on complex mobile projects; scope changes too much to promise a number that holds.

Yes, and we do it regularly. Our process starts with a two-week technical assessment of the existing codebase — architecture, test coverage, dependency health, known issues — before we scope the takeover. We're honest about what we find. Some codebases are worth continuing; some are cheaper to rebuild. You get a written assessment with our recommendation and the reasoning behind it before any development starts.

Both App Store and Google Play enforce annual minimum SDK requirements, and Apple policy changes (App Tracking Transparency, privacy nutrition labels, data deletion requirements) can require sprint-cycle updates. For clients on ongoing engagements, we monitor policy change announcements and plan compliance updates in the sprint before the deadline, not after the platform rejects an update. For new builds, we build to the current requirements from day one so there's no compliance debt at launch.

Yes — third-party integration is standard work in every mobile engagement. Common integrations we handle include Stripe and Braintree for payments, Firebase and Amplitude for analytics and crash reporting, Twilio and OneSignal for push notifications and messaging, Plaid for financial data, and REST or GraphQL APIs against any backend we or your team built. We document all integrations and their authentication patterns so your team can maintain them.