Android app development services
Android is the widest device surface in the world, and also the messiest — hundreds of screen sizes, OS versions and manufacturer behaviours. Building well for it is mostly about handling that variance deliberately.
Where we use Android
Android is part of the stack on this service. Each page covers how we work, what you get and what it costs to start.
Android in practice
Android’s strength and its difficulty are the same thing: it runs on everything. Hundreds of screen sizes, a long tail of OS versions and manufacturer skins that treat background work very differently. Building well for Android is mostly about handling that variance deliberately instead of testing on one flagship and hoping.
Battery management is where this bites hardest. Several manufacturers kill background processes far more aggressively than stock Android, so an app that syncs reliably on a Pixel may silently stop on other popular devices. Designing for that from the start — and testing on the devices your analytics actually show — is what separates an app that works from one that works in the office.
What we build with Android
Kotlin apps built on Jetpack, targeting current API levels while supporting the versions your users actually run.
Camera, Bluetooth, location and background sync, built to survive aggressive manufacturer battery management.
Staged rollouts, release tracks and the policy work that keeps an app publishable.
Is Android right for you?
Ask usA good fit when
- Your audience is outside North America, where Android share is dominant
- The product needs widgets, share targets, background sync or deep system integration
- Flexible distribution matters: staged rollouts, internal tracks, enterprise deployment
- Hardware access — camera, Bluetooth, NFC, sensors — is central
Probably not when
- Budget only covers one platform and your users are predominantly on iOS
- The app does the same thing on both platforms and cross-platform would halve the cost
- You need one identical interface everywhere as a brand requirement
What we run alongside Android
The rest of the setup, and why each piece is there. We keep this list short on purpose — every dependency is something someone has to maintain.
- Kotlin
- The platform language. New Android documentation and libraries assume it.
- Jetpack Compose
- The current UI toolkit — declarative, and where Google’s investment is going.
- Hilt
- Dependency injection that keeps larger apps testable.
- Room
- Local persistence over SQLite with compile-time checked queries.
- WorkManager
- Background work that survives process death and manufacturer battery policies.
- Play Console tracks
- Internal, closed and staged rollouts, so a bad release reaches few users.
Why Android
Let’s talkReach
The largest installed base globally, and the dominant platform in most markets outside North America.
Flexible distribution
Staged rollouts, internal test tracks and enterprise distribution give real control over releases.
Deep system integration
Widgets, share targets, background services and intents allow integration an iOS app cannot match.
What we get called in to fix
Get a second opinionBackground work that silently stops
Sync that works in testing and fails on specific manufacturers. WorkManager plus honest device testing is the answer.
ANRs and jank
Main-thread work — disk, network, large parsing — that Play Console reports but nobody has traced.
Fragmentation bugs
Layouts and behaviour that break on specific OS versions or screen sizes never tested against.
Target SDK deadlines
Play requires current target levels. Apps that fall behind stop being updatable, which is usually discovered late.
Android or the alternative
The comparisons we are actually asked to make, answered the way we would answer them on a call.
Native for hardware depth, background reliability and day-one APIs. Cross-platform when parity with iOS and cost dominate.
Compose for new work — that is where the platform is going. XML where an existing codebase makes a rewrite unjustifiable.
Kotlin for anything new. Java only where an existing codebase and team make switching a distraction rather than a gain.
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This could be the first step towards a new and successful collaboration. A one-line idea and a finished spec are both fine — tell us the problem, the deadline you’re working to and what’s in your way.
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Frequently asked questions
We set the floor from your own analytics — usually covering the versions that account for the large majority of your users.
Kotlin for new work. Java where an existing codebase and team make the switch a distraction.
Yes, including store listing, policy compliance and staged rollout setup.
The ones in your analytics, plus at least one low-end and one aggressive-battery-management device — that is where problems actually appear.
We track target SDK deadlines and policy updates as scheduled maintenance, not as emergencies triggered by a rejection email.