App development: mobile apps with a real backend, tested before release.
Cross-platform mobile app development means writing one codebase that ships as a native app on both iOS and Android, instead of building and maintaining two. Aldenebai does it in React Native and delivers what most app projects leave out: the backend the app talks to, the admin portal your team runs it from, and automated tests on real devices before every release. How a build is priced →
Scale model of the system
Why do so many mobile apps ship without a backend plan or a test suite?
Most app quotes cover the screens. The backend is "to be discussed", the admin side is a spreadsheet, and testing is someone tapping through the build the night before submission. Then the first content change needs a developer, the first bad release needs a hotfix, and the two-platform bug list grows.
That is a scoping problem, not a mobile problem. An app is a client for a system: it needs an API, a data model, a place for your team to manage what it shows, and proof that each build works on the phones your customers hold. Aldenebai scopes that system on the audit and builds it as one project. One accountable engineer, no hand-offs.
One build: the app, the backend, the portal, the tests.
How an app goes from a 30-minute call to the app stores
Scope the system, not the screens
On the Automation Audit we map what the app is for, who uses it, what data it reads and writes, and what your team must control after launch. Written map within 48 hours; if it fits, a fixed-scope, fixed-price proposal.
Data model and API first
Endpoints, authentication, roles, and the objects the app reads and writes are designed before the first screen, so every screen is wired to real data from day one.
Screens in React Native, one codebase
Each screen is built once in TypeScript and runs natively on iOS and Android. Platform-specific behaviour (permissions, navigation, notifications) is handled where it matters and shared everywhere else.
Admin portal alongside the app
A web portal ships with the app, not after it: content, users, orders, settings, with roles and an audit trail. The same pattern as the editor portals on Aldenebai's web builds.
Real-device tests, then a release gate
Appium flows run on BrowserStack's real-device cloud across the iOS and Android versions your customers use. API tests cover the backend on its own. GitHub Actions runs it all on every merge; a red build blocks the release. You receive the source, the pipeline, and the docs.
What kind of mobile app with an admin portal does Aldenebai build?
Customer-facing app with a portal behind it
Booking, ordering, membership, loyalty. Customers use the app; your team runs offers, content, and accounts from the portal, with push notifications where they earn their place.
Field and operations app
Inspections, deliveries, check-ins, stock counts for staff on the move. Keeps working on a weak signal, syncs when it returns, and feeds your inventory or operations system.
Internal tool app
Approvals, alerts, and quick actions for managers away from a desk. Often the front door to an automation: approve the exception the machine flagged, from your phone.
React Native, a typed backend, and a test suite that runs on real phones
One accountable engineer builds, tests, and runs the whole stack, with a team behind him, then hands it over clean.
Who should hire Aldenebai for iOS and Android app development with a backend?
Founders and ops leads who need an app that is part of a working system, not a demo. Companies with a web platform that now needs a mobile client. Teams burned once by an app that shipped without a backend plan, an admin side, or tests.
Not a fit for games, for a large in-house app team wanting extra hands, or for design-only work. Aldenebai builds the working product end to end and owns the testing of it.
Shipped example:
Questions founders and CTOs ask about React Native app development
Is React Native the right choice for cross-platform mobile app development?
For most business apps, yes. One TypeScript codebase ships to the App Store and Google Play, so features and fixes land on both platforms at once. Where a screen needs native behaviour, React Native calls native code for that part. If your app is a 3D game or leans on a platform-only API, we will say so on the audit.
Do you build the backend as well as the app?
Yes, and it is designed first. API, authentication, roles, and data model are scoped before any screen is built, so the app is wired to real data from the start. If you already have a backend, the app becomes a new client on it and the API is extended only where mobile needs it.
What does the admin portal do, and why does a mobile app need one?
The portal is the web interface your team uses to run the app: content, users, orders, settings. Without it, every change after launch is a developer ticket. It ships with the app, on the same backend, with roles and an audit trail so you know who changed what.
How is the app tested before each release?
Appium end-to-end flows run on real iOS and Android devices through BrowserStack, with API and unit tests underneath. GitHub Actions runs everything on every merge and blocks the release if anything fails. Tests are written alongside each feature, not the night before submission.
Can you add a mobile app to a web platform that already exists?
Yes, and it is a common shape of project. The existing API is reviewed and extended where mobile needs it, and the React Native app is built as a new client on the same backend and authentication. Web platform, portal, and app then share one source of truth.
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Find out what the app should actually include.
The Automation Audit is free: 30 minutes on the app, the backend, and what your team needs to run it. You leave with a written Automation Map within 48 hours, yours to keep either way.