Flutter and native-quality products
Palmate Solutions builds mobile applications for businesses that need more than a wrapped website. We primarily use Flutter when a single codebase can honestly serve iOS and Android, and we are explicit when a native module, a PWA, or a responsive web app is the better investment. Planning, API contracts, and release operations are part of the work — not extras.
Screens get designed before anyone writes down who uses the app, how often, and what happens when the network drops. We start with jobs-to-be-done and offline or poor-network behaviour.
iOS and Android drift when the same rules are implemented twice. Flutter is useful when the product can share UI and business logic without pretending every platform nuance disappears.
Mobile apps expose pagination, auth refresh, file uploads, and push notifications that a website never needed. We design or adapt APIs so the app is not fighting the server.
Signing, privacy questionnaires, crash reporting, and staged rollouts are operational work. We include them in the project plan rather than discovering them at submission time.
User roles, offline needs, device inventory, and a release thesis — what must ship in v1 versus what can wait.
Shared UI and logic for iOS and Android, with native bridges only where a plugin or platform API is required.
Auth sessions, background sync, and notification payloads designed with the backend rather than reverse-engineered later.
Build pipelines, signing notes, and a store listing checklist your team can reuse for later versions.
We challenge whether the job needs an installed app, a PWA, or a mobile-class website. That decision saves months.
Login, the primary job, and error states are prototyped before visual polish. If the flow is wrong, pixels will not save it.
The app consumes documented endpoints. Breaking changes are negotiated, not discovered in production.
Crash reporting, store assets, and a rollback story. A mobile release is a distribution event, not just a git tag.
Staff capture status, photos, or signatures where a laptop is impractical, then sync when connectivity returns.
Order history, notifications, and support shortcuts that wrap an existing commerce or billing API.
A focused tool for a warehouse, clinic, or plant floor that should not be a general-purpose website on a phone.
Flutter is our default when one product must ship on iOS and Android with a shared design system. Native is justified for deep platform integration, unusual performance constraints, or when a single OS is the entire market.
We prepare builds, listings, and privacy disclosures. The developer accounts remain yours. Review outcomes depend on Apple and Google policies, which we cannot guarantee.
Yes, if the API can support mobile clients. If it cannot, we document the gaps and either adapt the API or add a backend-for-frontend rather than hiding the problem in the app.
We can discuss it when a team already has React Native skills or a large existing codebase. We do not rewrite working apps for fashion.
Next step
Share the current system, the constraint, and the outcome you need in the next quarter. We will say if Palmate is a fit.