Grow your business with native mobile app development

Translate your ideas into iOS and Android mobile apps engineered to power your company’s growth

Leverage native mobile apps to achieve your business objectives

Mobile touchpoints are increasingly more effective in engaging customers than any other channel. Whether you’re offering goods and services, making workflows more efficient, or building a community, native mobile app development can enable you to meet the metrics that matter to your company.

Deliver robust and seamless mobility

Provide users with a reliable mobile application marked by speed and performance
Reach new customers

Go where your customers are and generate engagement with convenience, ease, and speed
Craft delightful user experience

Design native iOS or Android apps with beautiful user interfaces and intuitive navigation
Maximize smartphone capabilities

Integrate hardware functionalities (e.g. camera, GPS) into your app features
Secure user data and privacy

Safeguard user activities and communications through best-in-class security standards
Innovate continuously

Offer new features and updates to adapt to the changing needs of your users and the market
Create a lasting relationship with users

Discover your customers’ preferences, demographics, interests to build engagement and brand loyalty
Open up to enterprise partnerships

Work and integrate seamlessly with other apps and businesses

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Artemest: eCommerce with augmented reality available in native iOS and Android apps

Artemest enables shoppers to browse and purchase handcrafted art by over 500 Italian artists. Users can also preview luxury furniture in their own homes using an augmented reality feature.

Artemest has grown exponentially as a result of product enhancements led by Netguru, particularly a full DevOps review of the web platform code and the development of iOS and Android apps.

The web and mobile apps have received positive feedback from their community of artists and shoppers. The app has also been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and Elle.

Working with the Netguru Team was an amazing experience. They have been very responsive and flexible. We definitely increased the pace of development. We’re now releasing many more features than we used to before we started the co-operation with Netguru.

Marco Deseri
Chief Digital Officer at Artemest

Product Design Sprint

Identify business problems, pin down high-value product features, and reduce risks in bringing a product to market
UX & UI Design

Offer beautiful interfaces and seamless navigation with expert UX/UI design
Native Android App Development

Build intuitive and user-friendly Android apps written in Kotlin
Native iOS App Development

Build robust and feature-rich iOS apps written in Swift

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Take advantage of proven processes to make your project a success

The right technology partner will always make the extra effort to solve the most complex problems and guide you towards your goal.

Brainstorm and analyze together with your app development consultants
Decide on the tech stack and overall approach with your partner
Create an outstanding UI/UX that users will love
Build the application courtesy of highly specialized software engineers
Launch the app and wow them with how you’re able to meet their needs
Gather feedback, implement enhancements, and continuously improve your app

Every business benefits in having a mobile presence

There are approximately 1.85 million apps available in the iOS App Store and 2.56 million in the Google Play Store as of 2022. Companies are investing time and resources in developing mobile applications to drive business growth, streamline internal workflows, boost productivity, and achieve financial results. Mobile apps can and should provide users with a delightful and personalized experience while solving their problems or meeting their needs.

Netguru's mobile app development services help enterprises and startups in building digital products that achieve these objectives.

From idea to execution, you can count on Netguru to deliver for you and your customers.

What is a native mobile app?

Native mobile applications are apps developed exclusively for a single platform – typically either iOS or Android.

If you’re building an application to release on an iPhone or another Apple device using its official development language, that means you’re building an iOS native app. The same applies when developing an app for any device with an Android OS.

Organizations, enterprises, and startups typically want to make their mobile apps available on both Android and iOS, the two mobile operating systems with a near 100% global market share. Some apps are available on less popular smartphone operating systems such as Windows, KaiOS (based on Linux) and HarmonyOS (Huawei).

Whether you choose to deploy on Android or iOS — or both — native mobile apps offer advantages in these areas:

Application speed and performance
Stability in maintenance and updates
Faster and easier deployment of new features and releases
High customizability on features and UI/UX
State-of-the-art, platform-specific, and responsive UI/UX
Maximization of a smartphone’s hardware functionalities (e.g. camera, GPS, movement detection, Bluetooth)
First-rate security, protected by an operating system
Access to highly specialized talent who have mastered their respective platforms
Resource-intensive apps such as mobile games and those with heavy animations
Apps that are part of a larger suite of applications (which may share some code)

How is a cross-platform app different from a native app?

In the early days of the smartphone era, developers were constrained to create applications specific or native to specific devices, operating systems, and whatever platforms they had to be built on. As the market and ecosystem for mobile apps grew, new approaches came out including how to make the same app for different platforms. This is how cross-platform development emerged.

Cross-platform applications are apps developed for several platforms, usually on both Android and iOS, based on a single source code. Cross-platform development offers advantages when it comes to the following:

Code reusability between iOS and Android mobile apps
Faster development process and time-to-market
Value for money and reduced development cost
UI/UX consistency across platforms
Broad market reach when testing and prototyping

Choosing one development approach over the other (i.e. native vs cross-platform) is not a straightforward decision. Each project has different priorities and a unique set of circumstances.

What technologies are used in native Android app development?

Choosing the technologies for your native mobile app is a critical decision that will have a considerable impact on its success. Native Android development is mostly written in Java, a dynamic and stable coding technology.

Further, Kotlin is now an officially supported coding language, giving developers the option of using Google Java or Google Kotlin.

Netguru a deep bench of specialists versed in a wide range of different Android development technologies. In our discovery and planning process with you, we’ll recommend the best technology that suits your project and business objectives.

What technologies are used in native iOS app development?

iOS apps can also be built with a range of technology stacks. Choosing which one to use will depend on your requirements.

Swift is a relatively new programming language, which Apple released to the public in 2014. In 2015, Swift became open-source. It abandons the Objective-C heritage and has all the modern programming features: generics, optionals, type inference, and higher-order functions.

Objective-C is a long-standing, highly trusted programming language that uses dynamic typing and message passing. It also requires dividing classes into two code blocks: interface and implementation.

Engage a high-performing technology team capable of bringing your vision to life

We have a pool of specialists with expertise in mobile app solutions for iOS and Android, UI/UX, software development, product design, quality assurance, and many other digital services.

Enterprise office space management app with beacon technology

Building the app natively in both iOS and Android caters to all of the client’s employees who need to navigate 6,000 m2 of unfamiliar office space

Netguru was entrusted by a client to help them create a happy and productive work environment by encouraging their employees to make full use of the office. We had to develop an app similar to Google Maps but for 6,000 m2 of office space.

The map needed to be engaging, interactive, and even playful so that it wouldn’t frustrate or intimidate users as they roam around. Netguru also worked with a hardware partner in integrating over 500 beacons, which enables a high degree of accuracy in navigation.

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Meet temi, a personal assistant robot you can command from an Android or iOS app

In partnership with a robotics company, the project produced one million lines of code, 5,000 tickets in Jira, and one impressive robot

Combining sight, touch and sound, temi’s goal is to make people’s daily lives better. From facial and object recognition to voice ID and emotional detection, temi offers state-of-the-art experience in taking care of errands and automating simple tasks to help users focus more on things that matter and staying connected with loved ones.

Netguru developed temi’s Android-based operating system as well as the native iOS and Android apps for controlling the robot.

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Helpr is redefining social care in the UK

Leveraging digital technology to match care workers with families in need of them

Helpr is a UK-based platform that enables people requiring care for their families to post their needs and Helpr partners to select jobs that best match their skills, location, and availability. The technology removes many back-office functions allowing cost to the consumer to be reduced and more money to be paid to carers.

Helpr has become an open market of assignments for certified care workers. Netguru provided a full suite of services required to build a fully functional app of this scope: UI and UX design, backend and frontend for the web app, as well as its Android and iOS versions.

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See how our support helped those companies

I've really appreciated the flexibility and breadth of experience we've been able to tap from the Netguru team. While most of our work together has been in React Native, at times when needed we've also gotten support in QA, design, UX, iOS and Android as well.

Jonathan Uy
CTO at Shine
Netguru has been the best agency we've worked with so far. Your team understands Kelle and is able to design new skills, features, and interactions within our model, with a great focus on speed to market.

Adi Pavlovic
CTO Director of Innovation at KW
We have had a long relationship with Netguru. Netguru is a great and super-professional service provider, which brought new technologies, new methodology, and a new perspective to the project.

Asaf Davidi
VP Product at Temi

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Frequently asked questions about native mobile app development

Still not sure how our mobile experts can create value for your business? Here are some common inquiries raised by our clients.

Are native apps secure?

App security is a holistic concern that requires attention from a wide range of stakeholders. On our part, we continuously keep up to date with security standards and will never release a product we consider insecure.

Security audits are one way we keep on top of any potential weaknesses, but we also follow external guidelines, such as OWASP’s ASVS, OTG, or MSTG.

Before we begin the mobile app development process, we’ll make sure processes are in place to enforce these standards and guarantee that your product is secure before it goes to market.

Which mobile apps were built as native applications? Give some examples.

There’s a lot for us to name! At Netguru, we’ve worked on a lot of them. Here are some examples of native mobile apps that we built for our clients.

Shine, a mental health and well-being app
CarLens, a car recognition app
temi, a personal assistant robot
Helpr, a social care platform
Artemest, an e-commerce site for curated home décor, jewelry, and lifestyle art

And there are way more apps out there that you’re likely to be familiar with. Some examples of popular native apps are Spotify, WhatsApp, Pokémon Go, Waze, Soundcloud, and so much more.

How long is the development process for a native app?

This also depends on the nature and complexity of your project. The first two weeks are generally spent on planning, organization, and discovery. The following two to four weeks is typically devoted to interface design and workshops.

Then there's coding, development, testing, launch, and maintenance. We break down the process into cycles that keep track of the progress and manage the project timeline.

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