React Native development
Your product needs real phone apps, and they are only as good as the API behind them. We built the iOS and Android apps for a UK garage-booking SaaS in React Native, on the same Laravel API as its Next.js web app, and we are building the Shabash mobile app for salons the same way. The apps, the API and the website come from one team.
Two products, one delivered and one in progress.
Garage-booking SaaS, UK
Car owners pick a slot, confirm, pay, receive the invoice and get reminders from their phone. Scheduling runs against each garage's availability, and UK conventions such as MOT, registration and VAT invoicing run through the product. About one year for API, web and apps together.
Shabash, salon software
A free salon and barbershop product with customer and appointment management, a public booking API and embeddable widget, and a mobile app. It is in its early-access phase, and we also handle its SEO and distribution work.
We have shipped apps in two of these three ways, and the choice changes the budget.
React Native
Worth the cost when the app is the product: people use it repeatedly, and it needs to feel like a phone app and use device features such as notifications. One codebase serves iOS and Android, with some platform-specific work on each.
A wrapped web app
Worth considering when speed and budget matter most. The Belgian wearable QR apps were web apps wrapped as native builds, which kept three-month delivery realistic. Apple's rule against repackaged websites means a wrapper still has to offer real app features.
Fully native code
If your app depends heavily on low-level device or hardware work, a Swift and Kotlin team may suit you better. We have no fully native project in our published case studies, so tell us early and we will say so if it looks like the right route.
The risks that are specific to mobile come first.
Mobile connections drop and old app versions stay in use for a long time. The API has to cope with both, so we plan it together with the app rather than after it.
Your Apple Developer and Google Play accounts, signing and test builds are arranged at the start, so the first store submission does not become a last-minute problem.
You install the latest test build and use it. Booking and payment flows reveal far more on a real device than in a screenshot.
Both stores change their requirements regularly, and React Native ships new versions often, so we agree who owns those updates after launch.
An app rarely stands alone, so the scope usually includes what it talks to.
The garage-booking work was a single product build covering the API, web app and both mobile apps. We can also build only the app against your existing API, or provide developers to your team through our hiring model.
Hourly rates are from $20/h in USD, invoiced in USD, GBP, EUR or INR. We are an engineering team in India with 3–5 hours of overlap with the UK and Europe; US calls by appointment. Platform detail is on our iOS and Android pages.
Most of our work is delivered under NDA, so many projects cannot be named.
UK garage-booking SaaS: car owners book, pay, receive invoices and reminders from their phone; garages manage services and slots. Laravel API, Next.js web app, React Native iOS/Android apps. About one year.
Shabash: free salon and barbershop management software we build and market for a client — customer and appointment management, public booking widget and API, mobile app, programmatic salon directory and content on Next.js with headless WordPress.
Versions, take-overs and ownership.
Describe the users, the features that need the device, and any API you already have. We will suggest React Native or a simpler route, and explain the trade-off.
We reply within one business day (IST).
