Android apps that feel at home on Android

An Android version of an existing iPhone app starts at £8,000 and takes 6 to 8 weeks. A new Android app MVP starts at £12,000, the same scope shape as our iPhone app MVP. Typical Android apps come in between £12,000 and £25,000; apps with accounts, payments, a back end and several journeys run £25,000 to £45,000. We agree the scope first, then the price is fixed for that scope.

If you only need Android, or you have a native iPhone app and want the Android one to feel equally at home, native Kotlin and Jetpack Compose is the right choice. If you need both platforms from scratch on one budget and most of the app is standard product screens, Flutter, React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform is usually better value. If your iPhone app is already in Flutter or React Native, the Android build is a far smaller job than a rebuild and we quote it as such.

Yes. The design, the back end and API, and every product decision carry over, which is why it costs less than the original. What has to be rebuilt is the interface itself, because SwiftUI doesn't run on Android, and the Apple-only parts: StoreKit becomes Google Play Billing, Sign in with Apple becomes Google sign-in, Apple push becomes Firebase Cloud Messaging, Keychain becomes the Android Keystore. We review the iPhone app first and tell you exactly what falls into each group.

A Play Console developer account in your name, which has a one-time registration fee and identity verification. For a business we recommend an organisation account, which needs a D-U-N-S number and isn't subject to the closed-testing requirement. Personal accounts created after 13 November 2023 must run a closed test with at least 12 testers for 14 days before they can publish. We set all of this up with you and plan the testing period into the timeline.

Because Google Play changes the rules each year. Apps must target a recent Android version by an annual deadline or lose the ability to publish updates, and apps too far behind are hidden from new users on newer phones. Permission rules, billing library versions and policy requirements also change. App care covers this for one platform at £450 a month, or the iOS and Android versions of one app together at £750 a month.

Not ones we can point you to yet. The apps we have published under our own name are iOS, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. What you can check is how we build and launch: our own apps on the App Store, the code we write and the process on this page. On an Android project you get a working build to install every week from the second week, so you judge the work as it happens rather than at the end.