Android app
development
Android is the world’s most popular operating system, with over 3.8 billion active devices.
These include a variety of form factors, including phones, tablets, in-car systems, and TVs.
Ready to start building?Native is best
For the best Android experience, you need a native Android app built using Kotlin and Compose.
This gives the smoothest UI, the Android latest look and feel, and the best performance.
It is also the only way to talk directly to the Android operating system. If you need Bluetooth, for example, you need this direct access to hardware to be able to support different devices and peripherals.
What about other technologies like React Native or Flutter? Our observation is that they provide a degraded experience to users, from the perspective of both performance and platform look-and-feel. They also leave some more complex tasks effectively impossible.
We monitor the non-native landscape like a hawk - we really want there to be a catch-all technology that produces perfect applications on Android and iOS. But this doesn’t exist, yet.
The maze of the Play Store
Providing support for the Play Store is a large part of the service we provide.
The Play Store is an ever-increasing maze, with strange requirements and esoteric language. There are complex rules to follow and many hoops to jump through to get your first release out.
We smooth out the review process by knowing the rules in advance, and we provide advice on what app idea will work within the requirements and what would never.
This includes in-app payments, typically taken through Google Play - but in some cases, this expense can be avoided.
The Android look
Android is bright, diverse, and colourful. No two apps look alike. This is part of what gives the platform its charm.
But good Android apps do share a common design language that Android users have come to expect. And it’s different from what you might see on the web, desktop, or in iOS. Break these patterns, and apps won’t “feel” right to their users.
Since Android 17, all apps also need to support all form factors - mobile, foldable, tablet etc - and in both portrait and landscape rotations. We build this in from the early design stages.
Android also has a wealth of accessibility features, such as TalkBack (screen reader), live captioning, and display sizing. Apps are expected to work with these features.
Your app, over time
There are 2 releases of Android per year: a major one and a semi-major one. By the end of August, your app is expected to support at least last year’s major version. This way, the apps continue to evolve with the platform.
With early access to pre-release versions of Android, we can tell you in advance if a new release is likely to be problematic for your app. This also gives us a lot of time to address issues.
The Play Store promotes regularly updated, modern apps. So a programme of periodic maintenance updates and feature releases - however small! - can be really beneficial to your app’s earnings.
Android app development
With a team led by a Google Developer Expert in Android, we know Android inside out, in all its diversity, with all its quirks.
A member of our UK team will review your enquiry and email you within one business day, usually within minutes, to schedule a quick, no-obligation discovery call.
Yes. We treat your ideas with total confidentiality. We are happy to sign your NDA (or provide our standard one) before discussing any specific details of your project.