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Mobile App Development1 min read

Should our app be built natively or cross-platform?

Cross-platform (Flutter or React Native) covers the large majority of business apps well and roughly halves both the build cost and the ongoing maintenance cost, since one codebase ships to both the App Store and Google Play. Native earns its place when the app leans hard on device-specific capability — heavy camera or AR work, background processing that needs to be bulletproof, or a platform-exclusive integration. For most booking apps, portals, and internal tools we recommend cross-platform, and we will tell you plainly if your specific use case is the exception.

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Cross-platform (Flutter or React Native) covers the large majority of business apps well and roughly halves both the build cost and the ongoing maintenance cost, since one codebase ships to both the App Store and Google Play. Native earns its place when the app leans hard on device-specific capability — heavy camera or AR work, background processing that needs to be bulletproof, or a platform-exclusive integration. For most booking apps, portals, and internal tools we recommend cross-platform, and we will tell you plainly if your specific use case is the exception.

Cross-platform (Flutter or React Native) covers the large majority of business apps well and roughly halves both the build cost and the ongoing maintenance cost, since one codebase ships to both the App Store and Google Play. Native earns its place when the app leans hard on device-specific capability — heavy camera or AR work, background processing that needs to be bulletproof, or a platform-exclusive integration. For most booking apps, portals, and internal tools we recommend cross-platform, and we will tell you plainly if your specific use case is the exception.

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How long does an app take to build, including getting it into the stores?

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Do you handle the App Store and Google Play submission process?

Yes, including the parts people usually get stuck on — writing a privacy policy that actually matches what the app does, preparing screenshots at every required device size, and responding to Apple's review notes when the first submission gets flagged, which happens more often than most first-time app owners expect. We manage the developer accounts under your ownership, not ours, so you are never dependent on us to publish an update later.
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