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Recently shippedReplaced a $40,000/year enterprise PM stack with a custom build — 12 weeks, one engineer.
28Years in production
180+Sites monitored live
2–4 wkAverage build time
$0PM markup

The cross-platform tradeoff, finally solved

For fifteen years, cross-platform mobile has meant choosing between two compromises. Build twice in Swift and Kotlin and live with double the code, double the bug surface, and the inevitable platform drift. Or pick a runtime — React Native, Flutter, Cordova — and accept that the app will never feel quite right and that every platform-API integration will turn into a yak shave. Kotlin Multiplatform is the third path, and it is the right path for production apps. Business logic, networking, persistence, validation, and analytics are written once in Kotlin and consumed natively by iOS and Android. UI stays native where it should — SwiftUI on iOS, Jetpack Compose on Android — or moves to Compose Multiplatform when iteration speed wins.

What we build

Field-team apps for service techs, route sales, inspections, and dispatch. Healthcare and clinical intake apps. Mobile companions for SaaS web products. Internal operations apps for warehouse, manufacturing, and retail teams. Consumer apps that need to feel native because the user notices when they do not. The architecture is offline-first by default — your team in the warehouse, the field, or the customer site does not need to argue with the wifi to get work done.

One engineer, one architecture, both platforms

Most mobile engagements at agencies route iOS and Android to two separate teams who speak through Slack. Inevitably, the two apps drift — different bug fixes, different feature sets, different release cadences, and a perpetual gap between "we shipped it on iOS" and "Android in two weeks." Champlin Enterprises is the opposite. One senior engineer owns the entire mobile stack — iOS, Android, the shared Kotlin core, and the backend. Both platforms ship together, behave identically, and stay in sync over the years.

For the long run

Mobile apps are not done at launch. iOS and Android each release a major OS every year. Apple and Google rewrite policy and SDK rules on a tight cadence. Push notification rules, privacy disclosures, deep-link behavior, and store guidelines change constantly. A real mobile partner is the engineer who is still paying attention to all of that three years after launch.

What you get

What this looks like in practice

01

Native iOS

Swift, SwiftUI, and the modern Apple toolchain. Built to look right on every iPhone and iPad and to clear App Review on the first submission.

02

Native Android

Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Material You where it makes sense, custom design where it matters, all the way down to foldables and tablets.

03

Shared Kotlin core

Networking, persistence, validation, business logic, and analytics — written once, consumed by both platforms. Bug fixes land everywhere at once.

04

Offline-first by default

Local persistence, sync, and conflict resolution. Field teams, retail floors, warehouses, and route-sales teams keep working when the network does not.

Proof of work

Products we've shipped

Every product below was built by one senior engineer — designed, architected, and shipped without a PM layer or an agency markup.

Mend — WordPress fix service
MyTokenTracker — LLM cost platform
Last Call — venue menus & events
Chamber Culture CRM
HeartBridge — nonprofit giving
The Mirror — AI reflection app

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FAQ

Common questions

What approach do you take to cross-platform mobile?

Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose Multiplatform — Google-backed, JetBrains-built, and used by McDonald's, Netflix, 9GAG, Philips, and others in production. Business logic, networking, persistence, and validation are written once in Kotlin and shared across iOS and Android. UI can be native (SwiftUI on iOS, Jetpack Compose on Android) when polish matters most, or shared via Compose Multiplatform when speed matters most. The platform-team-with-a-shared-core model is the strongest cross-platform story available today.

Why not React Native or Flutter?

React Native ships JavaScript on top of a bridge with well-known performance, debugging, and platform-API friction — and the JS-to-native context switch tax shows up in the parts of the app users actually feel. Flutter renders its own UI, which is fast but never quite looks or feels native, and locks you into Dart. Kotlin Multiplatform shares logic without dictating UI, which is the better tradeoff for production apps that need to look and feel right on both platforms over the long run.

What kinds of mobile apps do you build?

Field-team apps for service techs, route sales, inspections, and dispatch. Healthcare and clinical intake apps. Consumer SaaS companion apps. Internal-operations apps for warehouse, manufacturing, and retail teams. B2B and B2C SaaS mobile experiences that share a backend with a web product.

Can the mobile app share a backend with our existing web app?

Yes — that is the most common shape. The same engineer who builds the iOS and Android apps designs the API, manages the data model, and ships the web product. One coherent system, not three vendors stitched together.

Do you handle App Store and Google Play submissions?

Yes. App Store Connect, Google Play Console, code signing, provisioning, beta tracks via TestFlight and internal testing, store listings, and the full review process are part of the engagement. We have shipped apps through every Apple and Google policy era for a long time.

Do you support apps after launch?

Yes. Mobile apps need ongoing OS-version support, dependency updates, store-policy changes, and feature work for years after launch. Maintenance and feature retainers are a standard part of how we operate.

Can the app work offline?

Yes. Offline-first persistence, sync, and conflict resolution are part of the standard architecture for any field-team or route-sales app. Built once in shared Kotlin code, validated identically on both platforms.

One build, two stores

One codebase.
Two app stores.

Kevin Champlin — Founder and Senior Engineer at Champlin Enterprises

Who builds this

Kevin Champlin

Founder · Senior Software Engineer

28 years in production software — from enterprise systems to the SaaS products above. The engineer who scopes your project is the same one who builds it, deploys it, and picks up the phone after launch. No handoffs. No juniors. No telephone game.

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