Can Kotlin run our backend as well?

Yes, using Ktor or Spring Boot. The appeal is that your app and server share one language and one set of data models, which removes a whole category of mismatch between them. It suits teams already comfortable in the JVM world.

How do you handle Android device fragmentation?

By testing on real hardware across price tiers rather than only current flagships. Screen sizes, chipsets, manufacturer skins, and available memory all vary widely on Android, and problems that appear on cheaper devices rarely show up on expensive ones.

Is Jetpack Compose ready for production?

Yes, and it is Google’s recommended approach for new Android interfaces. Older projects built on XML layouts do not need converting straight away, and the two can coexist while a migration happens gradually.

Does Multiplatform mean one team for both apps?

Partly. One team can own the shared logic, but each platform still needs someone comfortable with its own interface layer. It reduces duplicated work rather than halving your team, and anyone promising otherwise is overselling it.

Kotlin App
Development Services

Stateside Digitals provides Kotlin app development services, building native Android apps for the full range of devices your customers actually carry, from current flagships to budget hardware still in use.

Kotlin is a programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and has been Google’s preferred language for Android development since 2019. It was designed to solve specific frustrations in Java rather than to replace it outright, which is why Kotlin and Java files can sit in the same project and call each other without any bridging work.

That compatibility is what makes Kotlin an unusually low-risk change for a business. An existing Android app written in Java does not need a rewrite to start benefiting, and the whole Java library ecosystem built up over decades stays available to you. It is a modern language that does not ask you to throw away what already works.

Built On Java’s Ecosystem

Decades Of Libraries Included

Anything written for the JVM is available to your project, which covers most problems a business application will ever need to solve.

Fewer Lines, Fewer Bugs

Concise By Design

Kotlin removes the repetitive scaffolding Java required, leaving less code to read, less to review, and fewer places for defects to hide.

Google’s Preferred Language

Android’s Official Default

New Android tooling and documentation arrive Kotlin-first, so your project follows the platform rather than trailing behind it.

Wide-Device Android Apps

Consumer apps that have to work on flagship phones and inexpensive hardware alike, which is most of the Android market outside the US.

Java Codebase Modernization

Older Android applications moved to Kotlin file by file, with both languages running side by side, so the app keeps shipping while the migration happens underneath it.

Kotlin Backend Services

Server code written in the same language as the app, letting one team hold both ends and share models between them without translation.

Kotlin Multiplatform lets one codebase hold everything about an app that has nothing to do with how the screen looks: business rules, API calls, validation, offline storage, and data models. That shared code compiles for both Android and iOS, while each platform keeps a fully native interface written in its own language.

This is a different proposition from Flutter or React Native, which share the interface as well. You still build two front ends, so it costs more than a fully cross-platform approach and suits teams who want native feel on both platforms without writing the same business logic twice. We will tell you honestly whether your app has enough shared logic to earn it.

We build in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, handling background work through coroutines and Flow. Dependency injection uses Hilt, local storage uses Room, and networking runs on Retrofit. Builds are managed in Gradle and tested with JUnit and Espresso before release through the Play Console. On the server side we work with Ktor or Spring Boot when Kotlin makes sense end to end.

Kotlin
Jetpack Compose
Coroutines
Flow
Hilt
Room
Retrofit
Gradle
JUnit
Play Console
Ktor
Spring Boot

Tested Across Device Tiers

Built For Play Store Policy

Java Interop Kept Clean

Multiplatform Ready If Needed

Builds are checked on real hardware at several price points, because the faults that matter on Android rarely appear on the newest phone.

Target API levels, permissions and data disclosures are tracked against Google’s yearly deadlines rather than discovered at submission.

Where Kotlin and Java share a project, the boundary between them stays deliberate, so a part-migrated codebase does not become harder to read than either language alone.

Business logic is structured so it could move into Kotlin Multiplatform later, without committing you to that decision now.

Tested Across Device Tiers

Built For Play Store Policy

Java Interop Kept Clean

Multiplatform Ready If Needed

It rarely needs a rewrite. Kotlin and Java run together in one project, so we convert the files worth converting and leave the rest until there is a reason to touch them. Most migrations happen alongside normal feature work rather than pausing for it.

Kotlin App
Development Services