Mobile app development company for Maine

React Native shares a codebase across iOS and Android, making it a practical choice for apps built around accounts, forms, bookings, maps, payments or content. It uses each platform’s own interface components, and some logic can be shared with a React website. Web developers can contribute too. We use React Native for cross-platform builds, adding native modules where the app needs them.

A native app uses Swift for iPhone and Kotlin for Android. It suits products that depend on deep device features, heavy graphics, complex background work or new platform features at launch. The trade-off is maintaining separate codebases. We choose native development when those device requirements make it the better fit for the work.

A progressive web app is another option for a staff tool. It skips store review, although it does not appear in the app stores unless packaged for them. On iPhone, it can ask to send notifications only after someone adds it to the Home Screen. That restriction belongs in the decision if reminders are central to the tool.

The United States is a country where businesses can sign up for Stripe. Your checkout still needs to reflect what you sell: Apple requires in-app purchase for digital content, features and subscriptions used in the app, while physical goods and services used outside it need another payment method. We set up in-app purchases and subscriptions for both stores, and account for the appropriate checkout route when planning the payment flow.

Bring the decisions you have made and the questions you still need to resolve.

• Write the actions users need in the first release, in the order they will do them.
• Start registering Apple and Google developer accounts in your company’s name; organisation verification needs a D-U-N-S number.
• For a new personal Google Play account, plan for its required closed test before production release.
• Prepare a privacy policy that matches the data the app collects, for the listing and the app.
• Decide which screens and drop-off points you want analytics and crash reporting to reveal.
• List notification categories and who should receive each message, so users can control their settings.

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  Asking for notification permission immediately

  Ask when the benefit is clear, such as after an order. On Android 13 and later, notifications remain off until the user allows them.

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  Adding an analytics or advertising SDK without revisiting privacy answers: Update Google Play’s Data safety form to cover data collected by third-party SDKs.

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  Making account creation easy but deletion hard

  Give users an in-app route to delete their account and associated data, and provide the additional web request link required by Google Play.