Mobile App Development
What does Entrivis build under mobile app development?
We build mobile apps in-house, on Flutter and React Native, for companies whose app is the field-facing surface of an operating system: a sales team, a delivery network, a rewards programme. The app is the part users hold. The value is in what it connects to, which we usually built as well.
A mobile app for a business is rarely the whole job. Someone logs in, and behind that login is an order, a balance, a record that has to be right. The app is judged on how it feels; the business is run on what it connects to.
That is the line we work along. We build the app, and we build or already built the system underneath it.
The kinds of app we build, and what sits underneath them
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Field and workforce apps
The app a sales agent, technician, or driver works in all day. Built for the conditions real field work creates: patchy signal, one hand on the phone, a job that has to be logged before the next one starts.
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Customer apps
The app your customers install to see their account, place an order, or track something. The bar is higher here, because it sits next to every consumer app on their phone.
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Companion apps to a system we run
The mobile front end to an ERP or platform the same team built. This is the work that separates us: no gap between what the app expects and what the backend actually does, because one team owns both.
The system behind the app is not this page’s work. The ERP or platform belongs to Odoo implementation or web app development; the connections it relies on belong to the integration layer. We build those too. Here we are talking about the app.
The app, and everything the app depends on
An app is only as good as what it talks to. So the honest version of this page draws a line between the part that ships to a store and the parts that make it worth installing.
- Installs from a store and runs on the device
- Mobile App Development (this page)
- Serves the app its data and logic
- Web app development or Odoo implementation
- Connects it to banks, logistics, or payments
- The integration layer
- Is bespoke processing with no interface
- Custom software
Most app projects that go wrong do not fail in the app. They fail at the seam between the app and the system it depends on, where two vendors each assumed the other owned the problem. We remove the seam by owning both sides of it.
Apps that are in use
Endurance - the DSA app
Endurance runs a direct-selling-agent network for loan products. The app is where every DSA now works: submitting business, checking status, tracking payouts. It is built and in daily use by the field team, with public release pending Play Store review. It is the mobile surface of a system now running 395+ DSAs and ₹1,400+ Cr in loans disbursed across a 20+ branch multi-state network. We built the app and the ERP underneath it.
read the Endurance story →Cemseal - the MAAN rewards app
A construction-chemicals manufacturer with a loyalty programme that pays painters and retailers real money. The app scans a QR code on the product, credits the account, and runs the redemption through to a bank payout via ICICI integration. Live, in the field, paying out.
A field platform for a business off a packaged ERP
Built recently: the React Native surface of an operational platform for a business moving off a packaged ERP onto a custom system. The app carried the day-to-day field work; the platform behind it carried the records, orders, and money. One team, both halves.
We build these in-house, on purpose
Mobile is our own team, on Flutter and React Native. That is a deliberate change from how a lot of consultancies handle it, where the app is quietly subcontracted and the client finds out only when something breaks and nobody can say whose fault it is.
Keeping it in-house is not about capability for its own sake. It is about the seam again. When the same team builds the app and the system it talks to, there is no version mismatch to negotiate, no “the backend team says it is a frontend bug” standoff, no second contract to chase when a field changes. The app and the system move together because the same people move them.
This is the Product Engineering pillar applied to mobile: software that carries operations-critical weight needs one owner, not a chain of handoffs.
How a mobile engagement runs
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Start from the system, not the screen
Before we design a screen, we establish what the app connects to and what that system can actually give it. An app designed ahead of its backend promises things the system cannot deliver.
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Design for the field, not the demo
The app gets designed for where it is used: one hand, bad signal, a job to finish. Apps that demo beautifully and fail in the field were designed for the wrong room.
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Build the app and the seam together
The app and its connection to the backend are built and tested as one thing, not handed between teams. The seam is where these projects fail, so the seam is where we spend the attention.
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Test on real conditions
Real devices, real network conditions, real data volumes, before real users. The office wifi is not the test.
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Release and keep it running
Store submission, and standing responsibility for the app after it is live. How that relationship is structured is set out on engagement models.
Do you build mobile apps in-house?
Yes. Mobile is our own team, on Flutter and React Native. It is not subcontracted.
What do you build mobile apps with?
Flutter and React Native / Expo, chosen per project based on what the app has to do and what it has to connect to.
Can you build the app and the system behind it?
Yes, and that is the work we do best. When the same team builds the app and the ERP or platform it talks to, the usual gap between app and backend disappears.
We already have an ERP. Can you build a mobile app on top of it?
Yes. If the system is Odoo, that connection is Odoo integration work. If it is another platform, we build to its API. The app talks to what you already run.
Is the app native, or cross-platform?
Cross-platform, on Flutter or React Native, which gives you iOS and Android from one codebase. For most business apps that is the right call on cost and maintenance.
Who maintains the app after launch?
We can. App maintenance and store updates are part of how we work, not a separate contract you chase later.
Tell us what the app has to connect to
Who uses it, what they do in it, and what system sits behind it. That tells us what to build on the device and what has to be true behind it.