Native iOS and Android apps, and cross-platform builds where the trade-offs make sense. Performance-first, offline-capable, and rigorously tested on real devices.
Our Process
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android, React Native and Flutter for cross-platform builds.
In-app purchases, payment gateways, biometric authentication, and offline data synchronisation.
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), Apple Push Notification service (APNs), and behavioural trigger logic.
App Store Optimisation (ASO), store submission management, and CI/CD for mobile.
From Discovery to Delivery
We define the platform strategy, core feature set, performance requirements, and integration dependencies before any design or development begins. This is where the native versus cross-platform decision is made, documented, and agreed.
User flows, wireframes, and the technical architecture are designed in parallel. We plan for the hard features, offline sync, payments, authentication, from the start so they do not become expensive problems later.
Iterative development with regular builds you can install and test on your own devices. We do not disappear for weeks and surface a finished product. You see progress, give feedback, and influence direction throughout.
We test on real devices, not just simulators. This includes a range of iOS and Android hardware, different OS versions, varying network conditions, and edge cases that only surface on physical devices. Performance profiling, memory management testing, and security review happen here.
We prepare all submission assets, handle the review process, and manage any feedback from Apple or Google. We aim for a clean first submission and have the experience to navigate rejections quickly when they occur.
Crash monitoring, performance tracking, user feedback triage, and ongoing development for new features and platform updates. We stay involved after the app is live.
Slow apps lose users. We build to consistent performance standards across the development process rather than optimising as an afterthought before launch. Frame rate, load times, memory usage, and battery impact are all measured and managed throughout the build.
Simulator testing finds some issues. Real device testing finds the rest. We maintain a device library covering the most widely used iOS and Android hardware and test across it before any release.
For apps handling sensitive user data, health information, or financial transactions, compliance requirements shape architecture decisions from day one. MakDev is ISO certified, GDPR compliant, and HIPAA compliant. We build with those standards in mind rather than auditing against them after the fact.
Mobile apps rarely exist in isolation. They talk to backends, call third-party APIs, push data to analytics platforms, and integrate with business systems. Because we cover the full stack, we can build and own all of those integration points rather than leaving them to a separate team to figure out.
Our mobile development teams are based in Central and Eastern Europe, which gives US and Western European clients access to experienced iOS and Android engineers at 40 to 60 percent of equivalent market rates. The technical standards are not discounted to match. The cost advantage comes from where we are located, not from cutting corners on who we hire or how we work.
Technologies
iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, Instruments Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android Studio Cross-Platform:React Native, Flutter Backend and APIs: Node.js, .NET, Java, PHP, REST, GraphQL Payments: Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, in-app purchase APIs Authentication: Face ID, Touch ID, OAuth 2.0, biometric libraries Push Notifications: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), Apple Push Notification service (APNs) CI/CD: Fastlane, Bitrise, GitHub Actions Analytics and Monitoring: Firebase, Mixpanel, Crashlytics, Sentry
It depends on what your app needs to do. Native is the right choice when you need maximum performance, deep hardware access, or features that are tightly tied to platform-specific capabilities. Cross-platform is a strong option when you want to ship on both iOS and Android efficiently, your feature set is not hardware-intensive, and maintaining a single codebase makes sense for your team. We will give you a clear recommendation based on your specific requirements, not a preference for one approach over the other.
A focused MVP with a defined feature set typically takes between 10 and 20 weeks, depending on complexity. Apps with more integrations, custom backend requirements, or hardware dependencies take longer. We establish a realistic timeline during the discovery phase and structure the work so you have testable builds throughout rather than waiting until the end.
Yes. We build for both platforms, whether as separate native codebases or as a shared cross-platform build. We also manage the submission process for both the App Store and Google Play.
We provide post-launch support that covers crash monitoring, performance tracking, bug fixes, and ongoing feature development. We also manage the update cycle so that new versions of iOS and Android do not break your app unexpectedly.
Yes. Through our AI and ML integration practice, we can embed AI capabilities directly into mobile applications. That includes on-device inference for features that need to work offline, cloud-based LLM integrations for assistant-style functionality, personalisation engines, and computer vision features that use the device camera.
ASO is part of every deployment we manage. We research relevant keywords, write optimised store listings, prepare visual assets that meet platform specifications, and structure the metadata to improve both search ranking and conversion within the stores. We also monitor store performance post-launch and iterate on listings based on what the data shows.
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