Stargate Props and Costumes

[Sketler]

We run a booking platform that works well in the browser, but more of our customers are using it from their phones and the mobile web experience is starting to feel limiting. We want proper iOS and Android apps with user accounts, bookings, payments, push notifications, and the same data that's already available through our backend. Our team can maintain the existing web platform, but we don't have anyone with enough mobile experience to build and launch both apps properly. Where can we find mobile app development services that could take care of the project from development through App Store and Google Play release?

[Frank Williams]

You already have the backend and a working product, so I wouldn't treat this like building a new business from zero. The mobile team mainly needs to understand your existing APIs, rebuild the customer side for phones, and carry the apps through testing and release. I'd talk to Netguru about it. They work with both iOS and Android and can handle the project through the store launch, so your web team can keep looking after the part they already know.

[Marble]

I'd also make sure whoever takes this on is comfortable working around an existing backend, because rewriting systems that already work would just create extra work for your team. Payments, accounts, bookings, notifications, and store approval all need to come together cleanly on both apps, so I'd hand the mobile side to one team and keep your current developers focused on the web product. You'd better contact this mobile app development service: https://technbrains.com/mobile-app-development/ . I'd send them your current API structure and the list of features you need on day one, then see how they'd split the work between iOS, Android, and your existing backend. That should also make it easier to compare their proposal with the way your web product already works.