Flutter and native-quality products
Mobile App Development
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.
Problems this work solves
The app was commissioned without a workflow
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.
Two platforms, two product definitions
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.
The backend cannot support a mobile client
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.
Store release is treated as a surprise
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.
Who it is for
- Operations teams that need a field or warehouse app connected to inventory or tickets
- Businesses whose customers expect a native-feeling companion to an existing web product
- Companies choosing between Flutter, React Native, and native before writing a line of UI
- Teams that already have APIs and need a client that respects those contracts
What Palmate can provide
Product discovery for mobile
User roles, offline needs, device inventory, and a release thesis — what must ship in v1 versus what can wait.
Flutter application engineering
Shared UI and logic for iOS and Android, with native bridges only where a plugin or platform API is required.
API and push notification integration
Auth sessions, background sync, and notification payloads designed with the backend rather than reverse-engineered later.
TestFlight / Play Console handover
Build pipelines, signing notes, and a store listing checklist your team can reuse for later versions.
Typical workflow
- 01
Decide if mobile is the right surface
We challenge whether the job needs an installed app, a PWA, or a mobile-class website. That decision saves months.
- 02
Prototype critical flows
Login, the primary job, and error states are prototyped before visual polish. If the flow is wrong, pixels will not save it.
- 03
Build against a versioned API
The app consumes documented endpoints. Breaking changes are negotiated, not discovered in production.
- 04
Release engineering
Crash reporting, store assets, and a rollback story. A mobile release is a distribution event, not just a git tag.
Common use cases
Field service or delivery companion
Staff capture status, photos, or signatures where a laptop is impractical, then sync when connectivity returns.
Customer loyalty or account app
Order history, notifications, and support shortcuts that wrap an existing commerce or billing API.
Internal operations app
A focused tool for a warehouse, clinic, or plant floor that should not be a general-purpose website on a phone.
FAQ
Flutter or native?
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.
Do you publish to the App Store and Play Store?
We prepare builds, listings, and privacy disclosures. The developer accounts remain yours. Review outcomes depend on Apple and Google policies, which we cannot guarantee.
Can you work with our existing backend?
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.
What about React Native?
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.
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Next step
Discuss mobile apps
Share the current system, the constraint, and the outcome you need in the next quarter. We will say if Palmate is a fit.