We R Inc.

We build Android apps and keep them alive after launch — accounts, core features, sharing, store release, updates.

  • Android-first
  • Design to release
  • Post-launch updates

What we actually do

We R Inc. is a development studio with one specialism: Android. We write the app, we put it in the Play Console, and we are still there the week after it goes live, reading crash reports.

A typical piece of work runs the whole way through. The product gets scoped down to the screens a person really uses. Sign-up, sign-in, password reset and account deletion get built properly, because the store asks for them and because users notice when they are sloppy. The core features — the two or three things the app exists for — get the attention the rest of the industry spends on splash screens. Then sharing: share sheets, deep links that open the right screen, invites that survive a reinstall.

After that it is release work. Internal track, closed track, staged rollout, watch the numbers, widen it. Then the next version, because an Android app that stops being updated starts breaking on its own — new OS releases, new policy requirements, new devices.

The work, in our own words

Android apps, first screen to store listing

Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, built against real devices rather than one emulator. You get the source, the signing setup and a build that installs.

Accounts that pass review

Sign-up, sign-in, password reset, session handling and in-app account deletion — the flows Play checks for, wired to your backend or one we stand up.

Sharing and deep links

Share sheets that produce something worth opening, links that land on the right screen, and invite flows that still work after the app is reinstalled.

Staged releases, not big-bang launches

Internal and closed tracks first, then a percentage rollout with crash and ANR rates watched before the number goes up.

Store listing and data safety

Screenshots, feature graphic, description, content rating and the data safety form filled in to match what the code genuinely sends.

What people ask us for

Pick the one closest to your situation — we scope the real thing after we talk.

Most asked for

Full Android build

An app from an idea and a few sketches to a published listing.

  • Product scoping and screen inventory
  • Kotlin / Compose application
  • Backend integration or a new API
  • Play Console release and handover

Accounts and onboarding module

Dropped into an app that already exists.

  • Sign-up, sign-in, password reset
  • Session and token handling
  • In-app account deletion flow
  • Consent and permission screens

Update retainer

Keeping a live app current instead of letting it rot.

  • Scheduled releases
  • SDK and target API upgrades
  • Policy change work
  • Crash and ANR triage

Launch and listing

For a finished build that still has to get out the door.

  • Screenshots and feature graphic
  • Listing copy and content rating
  • Data safety declaration
  • Staged rollout plan

Takeover of an existing app

You inherited a codebase and nobody knows how it builds.

  • Code and dependency audit
  • Build and signing recovery
  • Written risk list
  • Plan for the next release

Scope, timeline and cost are written down after the first call, before anything is built.

How working with us goes

  1. You send the enquiry

    A few lines about the app, who it is for, and whether anything exists yet. It is read by the person who would scope the work, not by a form inbox.

  2. A call, then a written scope

    We ask the awkward questions early — accounts, data, who owns the backend — and send back a screen list, a sequence and what each part involves.

  3. Build in slices you can install

    Every slice ends with an APK on your phone. You use it, you tell us what is wrong, we change it before the next slice rather than at the end.

  4. Release, then keep releasing

    Closed track, staged rollout, crash watch, then the handover pack: source, signing, store assets and the next version's list.

Why we only do Android

Android is not one device, it is a spread: old handsets on small memory budgets, new ones with aggressive battery killers, manufacturer skins that treat background work differently. An app that was written for one flagship and tested on an emulator will look fine in a demo and fall apart in the field.

So we keep the stack narrow and go deep on it. We care about the size of the download, what happens when the network drops mid-action, whether the back gesture does what a person expects, and whether anything still runs when the screen is off. We write the data safety declaration from the code, not from a guess, because that is the line that gets an app pulled.

The result is unglamorous and it is the point: an app that installs quickly, starts quickly, survives an OS upgrade, and can be changed six months from now by someone who is not us.

Tell us what you are building

A couple of sentences is enough to start — we will come back with questions and a rough shape.

  • Read by the developer who would scope it, not a sales desk.
  • First reply is questions and an honest view of the hard parts.
  • If it is not work for us, we say so instead of quoting.