Native & cross-platform
Mobile App Development
We build Android and iOS applications against a written brief, on the platform that suits the job, tested on real handsets rather than an emulator. Then we keep them running: Scorpion Infotech treats the releases after launch as part of the work, not as a separate conversation.
Capabilities
What Mobile Development Includes
Everything a mobile engagement involves, from the first native-or-cross-platform argument through to the release you ship six months later.
Android Development
Kotlin on the Android SDK, with Jetpack handling navigation, lifecycle, background work and storage. The minimum API level is a decision, not a default — we set it from the handsets your users actually carry, which in India usually means testing well below flagship hardware. Signing, App Bundles and staged Play rollouts are part of the delivery, not a separate favour.
iOS Development
Swift in Xcode, with SwiftUI or UIKit picked according to the interface and the oldest iOS version you need to keep. An iOS app should feel like an iOS app, so we follow Apple’s conventions rather than shipping an Android layout with different fonts. Certificates, provisioning profiles and the App Store submission are handled here too.
Cross-Platform Development
Flutter or React Native, when one codebase across both stores is genuinely the better answer. We settle that argument before writing anything: shared code is cheaper to maintain, native code sits closer to the platform, and either way some features still need a native bridge. What we will not do is pick it to save a quotation and hand you the cost later.
API Integration
Wiring the app to whatever it has to talk to: login, paging, retries, and the far more interesting question of what the screen shows when the train goes into a tunnel. Responses become typed models rather than loose dictionaries, so a server-side change breaks the build instead of a user’s session. If the API does not exist yet, we specify and build it alongside the app.
Firebase / Backend Integration
Firebase when a managed backend genuinely keeps things simpler — sign-in, Firestore, file storage, transactional push and crash reporting. When a project outgrows it, we move to a Node.js service with its own database, and the app keeps calling one documented interface throughout so the migration is ours to worry about, not yours.
App Performance Optimization
We measure first: cold start, dropped frames, memory, network chatter and battery drain, profiled on real handsets rather than an emulator on a fast laptop. The fixes are usually unglamorous — work moved off the main thread, images sized properly, safe things cached, and a smaller download, which matters more than it sounds when storage is tight.
Maintenance & Version Updates
An app that is not maintained slowly stops working: a new OS lands, a store requirement changes, an API is deprecated, a dependency turns out to have a hole in it. We keep the project building and shipping, fix what production reports, and collect improvements into planned releases instead of a stream of one-off patches.
Development workflow
How a Mobile Project Runs
The same four stages every time. On a mobile build that means settling the platform question and the detail of the requirement, planning the screens and the architecture, building against real devices, and then handling the store release and what comes after it.
- 01
Discover
We learn how the work is done today, who does it, and what the software actually has to change. Nothing is estimated before this is written down.
- 02
Design & Plan
Screens, data model and architecture are agreed on paper, then broken into milestones you can recognise and sign off individually.
- 03
Develop & Test
Code is written in reviewable pieces and tested as it goes — behaviour, edge cases, and how it holds up on a mid-range phone or a slow connection.
- 04
Launch & Support
We handle the release, hand over the code and the documentation, and stay available for fixes and the next round of changes.
Technology
The Mobile Stack
Chosen per project, not by habit. These are the tools that come up most often on mobile work, together with the services that usually sit behind the app.
Native and cross-platform
Kotlin and Java with the Android SDK and Jetpack on Android, Swift and SwiftUI on iOS, and Flutter or React Native when one shared codebase is the better fit for the requirement.
- Kotlin
- Java
- Android SDK
- Jetpack
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Flutter
- React Native
Backend and integration
Most applications need something behind them. We build REST interfaces on Node.js and use Firebase for authentication, data and file storage where a managed backend keeps the project simpler to run.
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- Firebase
Next step
Planning a Mobile App?
Tell us what the app has to do, which stores it has to reach and what it needs to connect to. We will come back with the questions that matter and then a plan you can budget against.