Mobile app development in Hyderabad
Indian pharmaceutical companies still sell largely through medical representatives who visit doctors, chemists and hospitals every day, and Hyderabad is home to many of the companies that employ them. The app a representative carries has to log visits, show approved product material, record samples handed over and capture orders, often in a clinic basement with no signal and a phone that is several years old.
We build these field apps in React Native with the working day as the specification. Everything works offline and syncs when a connection returns. Approved content is downloaded ahead of time and versioned, so a representative never shows an outdated claim. Sample and order records are captured with who, where and when, so head office can trust them. Releases are scripted so a fix reaches the whole field force quickly, and testing happens on the phones they actually carry.
Hyderabad's technology economy grew around HITEC City, set up in 1998, and spread west through Gachibowli and the Financial District. It is where Microsoft runs one of its largest research and development centres outside Redmond and where Amazon opened what it described as its largest campus building, in 2019. JLL counts more than 355 global capability centres in the city, the in-house engineering and operations offices of foreign companies, employing over 200,000 people, which makes it the second-largest GCC hub in India. Those centres set the local price of an experienced engineer, and every other employer in the city, startups included, hires against them.
The second pillar is life sciences. Genome Valley, the pharmaceutical manufacturers on the city's edge and a fast-growing set of pharma GCCs make Hyderabad unusual: according to the same JLL research, nine of the world's top 18 pharma, biotech and medical device companies run capability centres here. Software in this world is about records people can trust. Quality teams need to see who changed a record, when and why. Approvals need a named person behind them. A batch, a deviation or a sample has to be traceable from start to finish. Much of that work still lives in shared drives and spreadsheets that have outgrown the job.
So the buyers here are usually one of three. GCC leaders with a mandate from headquarters and a hiring pipeline that moves slower than the roadmap. Quality, clinical and commercial teams in pharma who need a tool built properly and documented as it is built. And the city's own startups and established firms, who compete with those GCCs for every engineer and need senior people on a piece of work long before a hire can join.
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides. Most of the work happens in your repository, your ticketing system and a shared chat channel, which is how most GCCs prefer to run anyway. You talk directly to the engineer who writes the code, and the runbooks and architecture notes are written as we go, so your permanent team inherits them.
We are the right fit for the proof of concept that wins your GCC its headcount, a funded build that needs senior engineers before hiring can staff it, or specialist work alongside your team. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. Agencies and IT services firms can bring us in white-label under their name.
Four ways this arrives.
And crashes on the ones your users own. We add crash reporting with readable stack traces, find the handful of devices and OS versions causing most of the crashes, and fix those before anyone touches a feature.
Signing keys on a laptop, a manual build, store notes written at midnight. We move builds and signing into CI, add over-the-air updates for JavaScript-only fixes, and write down exactly how a release goes out.
A Bluetooth device, a vendor SDK, a camera pipeline, a background task the OS keeps killing. We write the native module in Swift and Kotlin, expose a small typed interface to React Native, and keep it isolated so upgrades stay possible.
Forms that vanish, actions that send twice. We decide what must work offline, keep it on the device, queue writes with idempotency keys the backend understands, and show the user plainly what is still waiting to sync.
Our own React Native app on Android, with retraction built into the client because moderation can pull a message after it has been sent.
Read the write-up →Asked by Hyderabad teams.
How do you work with teams in Hyderabad?+
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so calls, reviews and releases fit inside your normal working day. We work in your tools: Slack, GitHub and Linear, or whichever chat, repositories and ticketing your parent company has standardised on, with access through your own accounts. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down in your repository as we go.
Do you build for pharma and life sciences teams?+
Yes. We build the tools quality, clinical and commercial teams use every day: platforms where every change to a record shows who made it, when and why; approvals tied to a named person; field apps for medical representatives that work without signal; batch- and expiry-aware ordering for distributors; and document search that cites the exact source passage. The design documentation is written as we build, so your teams can see exactly what the system does.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Hyderabad?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Hyderabad at about ₹14 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. That buys a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.
Can you build the proof of concept our GCC needs to win headcount?+
Yes. We build one workflow as a small, real product inside your environment, usually in Next.js and Postgres, with usage you can report to headquarters. It starts with a fixed-price two-week piece, so the first working version arrives quickly and costs a known amount. The NDA comes before specifics, and the code sits in your repositories from the first commit, so when the headcount is approved your new team extends it.
React Native or fully native?+
React Native for most products: one codebase, one team, both stores. Fully native makes sense when the app is mostly the hard native part, such as heavy camera or audio processing, complex background work, or a platform feature React Native does not support yet. We will tell you which side of that line you are on, and write the native parts by hand either way.
Expo or bare React Native?+
Expo, in almost every case now. Development builds and config plugins removed most of the old reasons to eject, and EAS handles builds and signing. We go bare only when a native dependency genuinely cannot live inside a config plugin, and we will explain why before doing it, because it makes every future upgrade more work.
Can you take over an app someone else built?+
Yes. We start by getting it to build on a clean machine, which is often the hardest step, then bring React Native and its dependencies up to a supported version before adding features. We tell you what state the app is in, including where the store listings, signing keys and accounts actually live, before quoting anything larger.
Who handles App Store and Play Store submission?+
We do, from your developer accounts, not ours. We prepare the builds, the privacy disclosures and the notes for the reviewer, and deal with rejections when they come. The accounts, signing keys and listings stay in your name, so you can change developers later without asking anyone's permission.
Does our backend need to change for a mobile app?+
Often, a little. A mobile client stays on old versions for months, retries on bad networks, and cannot be fixed by a server deploy. That means versioned endpoints, idempotent writes, and a way to tell an old client it must update. We check the backend for those before the first screen is built, because retrofitting them after launch is slower.