Mobile app development in Dubai
Native iOS and Android apps for financial products — trading terminals, wallets, banking and payments — built for streaming data, biometric security and app-store review that passes first time.
- Platforms
- Native iOS · Native Android
- First release
- 8–12 weeks
- Security
- Biometrics · secure enclave
- Store
- Submission & review handled
Why financial apps need native engineering
A finance app streams live prices, renders charts at 60fps, holds credentials in hardware-backed storage and has to keep working on a patchy mobile network. We build native — Swift on iOS, Kotlin on Android — so charts, websocket reconnection, background refresh, push delivery and biometric unlock behave the way users expect on each platform, and cross-platform performance ceilings never become your product ceiling.
- Streaming quotes and charts over WebSocket with delta updates and offline recovery
- Face ID / Touch ID / Android Biometric with keys in the secure enclave or keystore
- Push notifications for fills, margin calls, price alerts and KYC status
- In-app onboarding: document capture, liveness checks and KYC status tracking
- Certificate pinning, jailbreak/root detection and obfuscation
- Accessibility, Arabic RTL layouts and dark mode as standard
App Store and Play review for finance apps
Financial and crypto apps get extra scrutiny: licence evidence, regional availability rules, in-app-purchase policy, data-safety declarations and clear risk disclosure. We prepare the submission package, run pre-review checks and handle reviewer correspondence, which is usually the difference between shipping in days and being stuck in appeals for weeks.
From design to release
Design system and prototypes first, then two-week build increments with TestFlight and Play internal-testing builds from day one so stakeholders test on real devices. Release includes crash and performance monitoring, staged rollouts, feature flags and over-the-air config so you can adjust without waiting for a review cycle.
Frequently asked questions
How much does mobile app development cost in Dubai?
A focused native app on one platform typically starts around USD 40,000. A production FinTech app on both iOS and Android with streaming data, KYC and payments is usually USD 80,000–200,000 depending on scope.
How long does it take to build an app?
First store release usually lands in 8–12 weeks for a focused scope, with both platforms progressing in parallel.
Native or cross-platform?
We default to native for trading, wallet and banking apps because of chart performance, hardware-backed security and platform-specific background behaviour. For content-heavy or internal apps, cross-platform can be the right economic call and we will say so.
Do you handle App Store and Play Store submission?
Yes — store listings, data-safety and privacy declarations, licence evidence, review correspondence and staged rollouts.
Do you support the app after launch?
Yes. SLA-backed support with crash and performance monitoring, OS-version upgrades and a continuous product retainer.
Other things we build
Let's scope your build
Tell us what you're launching and we'll come back with an architecture, a timeline and a fixed-scope estimate — usually within two working days.