Native Android Development

Android App
Development

Name: Appverra
Address: 20 N Moore St, New York, NY, 10013, US
Telephone: (213) 714-7176
Price range: $$

We build native Android apps in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for phones, tablets, and the wide world of Android devices — and we tell you honestly when one cross-platform codebase will serve both Android and iOS for less. 150+ apps shipped, 700+ customers, millions of downloads. Android MVPs from $7,997, with a $1,997 Discovery Sprint to scope your build first.

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When native Android is the right call

We are a Flutter-first agency, and we will always tell you when one cross-platform codebase is the smarter spend. But native Android — written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose — genuinely earns its keep for some products. We recommend going fully native when:

Your audience is Android-first. In much of the world and in many categories, Android is the majority platform. An Android-first build puts your best work where your users actually are.
You lean on Google and Android. Google Pay, Firebase, Google Maps, Wear OS, home-screen widgets, app shortcuts, and deep background work all run best in a native build.

You support a wide device range. Phones, tablets, and foldables that need tight control over how the layout adapts are easier to get right natively.
You use Android-specific capabilities. Rich and ongoing notifications, foreground services, custom share targets, and default-app roles are first-class on Android.

And here is when we will steer you away from native: if you need Android and iOS together on a startup budget, building two separate native apps roughly doubles your cost and timeline for little real gain. For most MVPs, our Flutter app development gets you the same product from a single codebase, faster — and our React Native work shows where cross-platform fits. We would rather scope you the cheaper path than sell you two builds.

What we build in Kotlin & Jetpack Compose

We build production Android apps in modern Kotlin — Jetpack Compose for the UI, Coroutines and Flow for clean async code, and a maintainable MVVM architecture that holds up as you grow. The apps we ship most often:

Consumer & subscription apps

Polished apps with Google Play Billing subscriptions and in-app purchases, onboarding, and paywalls that pass policy review.

Marketplaces & on-demand

Two-sided and on-demand apps with payments, Google Maps, real-time status, and push — built to scale past the MVP.

SaaS companion apps

A native Android companion to your web product, sharing one backend so your data and accounts stay in sync.

The stack we reach for: Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, Coroutines and Flow, Room, WorkManager, Navigation, Material Design 3, Google Play Billing, Firebase (FCM push, Auth, Crashlytics), Google Pay, and Maps where they fit. When your app needs a backend, admin dashboard, or API, our full-stack team builds it alongside the app so nothing is bolted on later.

Built for the real Android device landscape

Android is not one device — it is thousands, across a decade of OS versions, dozens of manufacturers, and a huge range of screen sizes and price points. Naive Android apps look fine on a Pixel and fall apart on a three-year-old budget phone. We build for the devices your users actually own:

Real-device testing. We test on a matrix of real phones across OS versions and screen sizes, not only an emulator that hides the problems.
Performance on budget hardware. We keep the app small and fast for users on low-end and older devices, where most of your installs may come from.

Background work that survives. Doze, battery optimization, and the aggressive battery killers some OEMs ship will silently break naive background tasks — we build around them.
Sensible version targets. We pick a minimum SDK that covers your users and handle the OS and manufacturer quirks so the app behaves the same everywhere.

What is included in every Android build

Discovery Sprint. We scope the app, design a clickable Figma prototype, and hand you a fixed-bid statement of work before any code is written.
Material Design 3 UX. Interfaces designed to Google\'s Material guidelines so the app feels native to Android, not ported.
Native Kotlin development. Built in weekly milestones with real builds you can install on your own phone.

Backend & APIs when you need them. Auth, payments, notifications, and an admin dashboard, built to share the app\'s data.
Google Play submission. Play Console setup, the Data safety form, target-API compliance, and a staged rollout.
Post-launch support. OS-version updates, device-specific fixes, and crash and performance monitoring via Crashlytics.

Android app development pricing

Fixed-bid, agreed up front after the Discovery Sprint — no hourly surprises. Most funded-startup MVPs land between Launch and Growth.

Discovery Sprint

$1,997

Scope + prototype

Starter

$7,997

Focused MVP

Launch

$14,997

App + backend

Growth

$29,997

App + backend + admin

Scale

$59,997

Multi-role, high-scale

What we don\'t build

We say no to work we are not the right team for, on the first call — never after taking your money. We don\'t build games (Unity or native game engines), HIPAA-regulated clinical systems, heavy on-device machine learning, or full augmented-reality experiences. If that is your project, we will tell you up front and point you toward a team that is a better fit.

FAQ’s

Android App Development FAQs

Both. We build fully native Android apps in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose when your product is Android-first or leans on Google and Android-specific capabilities, and we build cross-platform with Flutter when one codebase across Android and iOS is the smarter spend. On the Discovery Sprint we tell you which path fits your product and budget, not whichever bills more hours.

Our fixed-bid tiers run from a $7,997 Starter build to a $59,997 Scale build, with most funded-startup MVPs landing in the $14,997 to $29,997 range. We start with a $1,997 Discovery Sprint that scopes the app, delivers a clickable Figma prototype, and gives you a fixed bid before you commit to the build.

Most Android MVPs ship in about six weeks from the end of the Discovery Sprint. Larger apps with custom backends, payments, and multiple user roles typically take eight to twelve weeks. We work in weekly milestones, so you can install real builds throughout, not just read status updates.

Yes. We set up your Google Play Console, complete the Data safety form, make sure the app meets Google's current target-API requirements, and run a staged rollout so you can catch issues before every user gets the update. You end up with a live listing on Google Play, not a handoff of an APK.

If your audience is Android-first, or your app depends on Google services, Wear OS, home-screen widgets, or deep background work, native Kotlin is usually the right call. If you need both Android and iOS on a startup timeline and budget, Flutter ships the same product from one codebase and is almost always the smarter spend. We give you a straight recommendation on the Discovery Sprint.

Carefully — it is the defining challenge of Android. We target a sensible minimum Android version, test on a matrix of real devices rather than only an emulator, keep the app fast on budget hardware, and build background work that survives Doze, battery optimization, and the aggressive battery killers some manufacturers ship. The goal is an app that works on the phones your users actually own, not just the latest Pixel.

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