Mobile Apps
Android apps that work across the devices people actually own
Android’s challenge is variety. An app that flies on a recent flagship can be unusable on the three-year-old mid-range handset a large share of UK users actually carry. We test against realistic device profiles, because that is where the reviews come from.
Indicative
From £14,000
Fixed price agreed in writing before any build starts.
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The problem this solves
Teams build and test on one high-end device, ship, and then collect one-star reviews about crashes and battery drain from users on hardware they never tried. Background work restrictions and OEM battery managers make this worse and are rarely accounted for.
What you get
Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Modern Android with Compose UI, coroutines and the recommended architecture components.
Real-device testing matrix
Tested across low, mid and high-end profiles and multiple Android versions, so performance problems surface before your users find them.
Background work that survives
WorkManager scheduling that tolerates Doze mode and aggressive OEM battery managers — a very common cause of "notifications stopped working".
Play Store compliance
Data safety form, target API level compliance and permissions justification. Google enforces target API deadlines annually and delists apps that miss them.
Google Play Billing
Subscriptions and in-app purchases with server-side verification.
Staged rollout
Release to a small percentage first, watch crash-free rate, then widen — so a bad build reaches few people.
How we work
Scope
Features, minimum SDK and device matrix agreed, fixed price.
Design to Material guidelines
Platform-appropriate patterns from the start.
Build
Two-week cycles with internal-testing builds.
Device testing
Real-device sweep plus automated instrumentation tests.
Staged rollout
Percentage rollout with crash monitoring.
Support
Thirty days included, then an annual target-API compliance plan.
What you should expect
- Verified performance on mid-range hardware, not only flagships
- Background tasks and notifications that survive OEM battery managers
- Play Store data-safety and target-API requirements met
- Staged rollout with crash-free rate monitored
Built with
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Coroutines
- Room
- WorkManager
- Hilt
- Firebase
- Play Billing
- Espresso
Mainstream, well-supported technology — chosen so you can hire for it and so another team could take the project over.
Android App Development — your questions
Including the ones about cost, which most agencies leave off the page.
Typically £14,000 to £28,000 for a focused native app. Android can cost slightly less than iOS to submit but slightly more to test properly, because the device matrix is far wider. Fixed price after scoping.
We normally set a minimum SDK covering roughly 95% of active UK devices, which currently means going back several versions. Supporting older releases is possible but each one adds testing cost, so we make the trade-off visible with real distribution data.
Because several manufacturers ship aggressive battery managers that kill background processes regardless of Android’s own rules. It is a real and well-known problem. We handle it with WorkManager, high-priority messages where justified, and clear in-app guidance for the handsets that need a settings change.
Google requires apps to target a recent Android API level to remain discoverable on Play, and raises that bar annually. An app that misses the deadline stops being available to new users. We include the current requirement at launch and cover future ones in the maintenance plan.
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A short call is usually enough to tell you whether this is the right service for your situation — including when it is not.