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Mobile App Development Company in Dubai — Flutter, React Native, iOS, and Android

Xenotix Labs builds production-grade iOS and Android apps for Dubai-based founders, SMBs, and DMCC/DIFC-licensed entities. Cricket Winner — built for UAE's WinnerMedia Sports — has been live for 4+ years on the App Store and Play Store, serving millions of cricket fans during IPL 2026 and T20 World Cup 2026. AED 23,000 starter MVPs, 6-10 week timelines.

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Cricket Winner — live cricket platform built for Dubai's WinnerMedia Sports
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WinnerMedia Sports·4+ years in production·Millions of GCC users served·DUNS-verified Apple + Google publishing·Free-zone-friendly contracts

How a Dubai-based founder hires a mobile app development company in 2026

Dubai's mobile app development market in 2026 is split into three pricing tiers. Premium Dubai-based agencies charge AED 1,000-1,500/hour ($270-410/hour) — fine for large enterprise contracts where you need on-site presence and Arabic-native account management. Offshore agencies in Eastern Europe or South Asia charge AED 75-300/hour ($20-80/hour) — quality varies enormously, and you spend significant time vetting. India-based engineering teams with UAE production track records, like Xenotix Labs, sit in the AED 75-300/hour range with quality matched to Dubai-grade output. Cricket Winner — built for UAE's WinnerMedia Sports in 2022 and live on the App Store and Play Store ever since — is our public proof point.

Our mobile app development engagement for Dubai clients defaults to Flutter (one Dart codebase, two stores, automatic visual parity between iOS and Android), reaches for React Native when your team is React-heavy and web/mobile code share matters, and goes native Swift or Kotlin only when use case demands platform-specific performance (heavy AR, on-device ML, audio DSP, deep OS integration). Cricket Winner runs on Flutter — for the precise reason that pixel-perfect parity across iOS and Android matters for a sports platform serving heterogeneous device markets across the GCC.

Pricing is transparent in AED. Starter MVPs (single-platform Flutter app, 4-8 screens, auth, 1 payment integration, basic admin) start at AED 23,000 with 6-10 week timelines. Growth-tier builds (iOS + Android via Flutter, 12-25 screens, payments, push, real-time, analytics) run AED 47,000-117,000 over 3-5 months. Scale-tier multi-app systems (consumer + provider + admin, microservices, real-time engine — Cricket Winner is in this tier) run AED 117,000-281,000 over 5-9 months. Enterprise builds with full SOC 2-aligned infrastructure, dedicated SRE on-call, and multi-region UAE deployment start at AED 281,000+.

Below we walk through every dimension of how we deliver Dubai mobile app development engagements: the technology stack reasoning, the AED tier breakdown, our Cricket Winner case study in depth, related case studies framed for Dubai-relevant use cases (food delivery, dating, services marketplaces, e-commerce), our App Store and Play Store publishing process under DUNS-verified accounts, our differentiators, and the FAQ Dubai founders ask in scoping calls.

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Written by Xenotix Labs Engineering

Founding Engineering Team — India HQ, UAE delivery

Xenotix Labs is a startup-first software development company headquartered in India. Our engineering team has shipped 33+ production startup products globally — including Cricket Winner (cricketwinner.com), the live cricket platform built for UAE-based WinnerMedia Sports that today serves millions of cricket fans across UAE, India, and the GCC.

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Cricket Winner — Dubai-built live cricket platform serving millions across the GCC

Built for WinnerMedia Sports (Dubai, UAE) · Live since 2022

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The challenge

Build a live cricket platform for Dubai-based WinnerMedia Sports — sub-second ball-by-ball score updates during live IPL and T20 World Cup matches, breaking cricket news with editorial workflow, fantasy tips, expert match predictions, an opinion-trading engine where cricket fans place views on match outcomes, and a sponsored leaderboard contest engine. The platform had to scale from launch traffic to live IPL-class match traffic without architectural rewrites, support both light and dark mode for users browsing during day and night cricket matches, ship multilingual capability with English-first content, and hit Lighthouse 90+ on the mobile devices common across the UAE and GCC — heterogeneous Android and iOS hardware spanning premium iPhones in Abu Dhabi, mid-range Samsungs in Sharjah, and budget Android in the wider expat market.

Stack

Flutter mobile (iOS + Android from a single Dart codebase, Riverpod state management, Hermes-tuned cold start, native platform channels for biometric auth and payments), Next.js 14 web with App Router and React Server Components for SEO-indexed match-prediction articles, Node.js backend with MongoDB optimised for high-volume cricket event metadata (deliberately Mongo over Postgres because match events are document-shaped — match info, ball-by-ball deliveries, news articles, expert predictions, leaderboard rankings all benefit from flexible schema), WebSockets for sub-second ball-by-ball score sync during live matches, Kafka for high-throughput trading and news event streams that need replayable ingestion when traffic spikes 100× during popular matches, AWS infrastructure with primary in ap-south-1 (Mumbai) for cost-effectiveness and CloudFront edge nodes in Dubai (DXB) and Riyadh for sub-50ms latency to GCC end users, Figma → production design system shipping dark + light mode in lockstep, internal CMS for the editorial team to publish 10+ articles per day, and a sponsored gifts / contest engine integrated with WhatsApp Business API for fan engagement.

Outcome

Live in production for over 4 years. Has scaled through IPL 2023, IPL 2024, IPL 2025, and is currently sustaining live IPL 2026 + T20 World Cup 2026 traffic with sub-second score sync latency on every ball. Active editorial team publishes 10+ articles per day across match predictions, fantasy tips, cricket news, player analysis, and stats deep-dives. Active leaderboard with hundreds of expert participants per month, ranked by accuracy on match and toss predictions. Sponsored advertising and contest engine running 24/7 with brand integrations from major UAE retailers. Bilingual capability (English-first with Arabic support roadmap). Dark mode and light mode both shipping at production parity. iOS, Android, and Web — all from one engineering team. The same Xenotix engineering team that shipped the original product in 2022 is the same team operating it today in 2026 — a 4-year continuity record with zero architecture rewrites despite traffic scaling roughly 100× from launch to current peak IPL match concurrency.

Key signals

  • Millions of cricket fans served across Dubai, the UAE, India, and the wider GCC
  • Sub-second score sync latency on every ball during live IPL 2026 matches
  • 4+ years continuously in production with zero architecture rewrites
  • Currently active during IPL 2026 and T20 World Cup 2026
  • 10+ original editorial articles published every day
  • Hundreds of monthly leaderboard participants competing on prediction accuracy
  • Bilingual capability (English-first), production dark + light mode
  • iOS + Android + Web all delivered by one Xenotix engineering team
  • Sponsored gifts / contest engine with major UAE retailer integrations
  • 100× traffic scale from launch baseline to current peak match concurrency

Cricket Winner — In production right now

What we built for Dubai's WinnerMedia Sports

These are screenshots of the live Cricket Winner platform serving millions of fans during IPL 2026 and T20 World Cup 2026. Visit cricketwinner.com and you are using Xenotix engineering output right now.

Cricket Winner homepage — light mode — showing live IPL 2026 scores, news headlines, and the daily prediction contest

Homepage — Light mode

Live IPL 2026 scores, breaking news, daily prediction contest, leaderboard rankings

Cricket Winner homepage — dark mode — same product with full dark-mode token system

Homepage — Dark mode

Same product with a full dark-mode token system — both shipping at production parity

Cricket Winner live scorecard — Bangladesh W vs Sri Lanka W T20I — sub-second WebSocket score sync

Live scorecard

Sub-second ball-by-ball score sync via WebSockets — running through every IPL since 2023

Cricket Winner match prediction article — full editorial CMS rendering with related links

Match prediction articles

Editorial CMS publishing 10+ articles daily — Next.js SSR for perfect SEO indexability

Cricket Winner cricket news listing with monthly expert ranking leaderboard

News + Expert leaderboard

Cricket analysis articles + monthly expert prediction leaderboard with hundreds of participants

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Sub-services

What we ship inside mobile app development company in dubai — flutter, react native, ios, and android

Real engagements, real case studies — not a feature list. Each sub-service is one we have shipped to production.

iOS App Development for Dubai (Swift, SwiftUI)

Native iPhone and iPad apps in Swift / SwiftUI for premium Dubai consumer apps, fintech with Apple Pay deep integration, AR commerce, fitness with HealthKit. Live Activities support for sports apps (Cricket Winner pattern).

Use cases: Premium Dubai consumer apps, DIFC fintech with Apple Pay, AR retail experiences, fitness with HealthKit

Shipped on: Cricket Winner iOS — 4+ years live in UAE App Store; Bolcall iOS; Veda Milk customer iOS

Android App Development for Dubai (Kotlin)

Native Android in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, Room, WorkManager. Optimised for Android device diversity across the GCC market.

Use cases: Mass-market Dubai consumer apps, gig-worker apps for Dubai delivery operators, low-bandwidth offline-first patterns

Shipped on: Cricket Winner Android — 4+ years live in UAE Play Store; Veda Milk delivery-boy Android; Carvia driver Android

Flutter Cross-Platform Development for Dubai (single Dart codebase, two stores)

Default for venture-funded Dubai startups. One Dart codebase, two stores, automatic visual parity. Riverpod for state management, Dio for HTTP, native platform channels for biometric / payment SDKs / device APIs.

Use cases: Dubai D2C, services marketplaces, fintech, sports/media (Cricket Winner pattern), dating, on-demand

Shipped on: Cricket Winner is Flutter; 18+ Flutter apps shipped globally including Veda Milk, Bolcall, Cremaster, Carvia

React Native Development for Dubai with Web Code Share

Best when your Dubai team is already React-heavy and code-share between web and mobile is a strategic advantage. TypeScript-first, Reanimated 3, Hermes-tuned cold start under 1.2s.

Use cases: Dubai SaaS with paired mobile + web apps, JS-heavy organizations, OTA-update-heavy products

Shipped on: Multiple admin / operator apps shipped alongside Next.js panels in our portfolio

Real-time Mobile Features (WebSockets, Push, In-App)

Sub-second WebSocket data flows for live sports scores (Cricket Winner pattern), chat, location tracking, live auctions, trading. APNs / FCM push with rich notifications.

Use cases: Dubai sports / media platforms, dating apps with voice/chat, marketplaces with live order tracking

Shipped on: Cricket Winner sub-second ball-by-ball score sync during IPL matches; Bolcall WebSocket voice/chat; ClaimsMitra live status

App Store + Play Store Publishing under DUNS-verified Accounts

We submit Dubai apps to App Store, Google Play, and Huawei AppGallery under our DUNS-verified developer accounts (or yours). Includes UAE App Store localization, Arabic listing copy, and ASO research.

Use cases: First-time Dubai founders, agencies without DUNS, international launches needing global publishing infrastructure

Shipped on: Cricket Winner published in UAE + global App Store / Play Store; 50+ apps shipped under our publishing accounts

Post-Launch Support, OS-Compat, and Crash-Rate SLAs

Quarterly OS-version compatibility passes (iOS / Android), crash-rate SLAs measured in Sentry / Firebase Crashlytics, performance budgets enforced in CI, dedicated Slack channel for production incidents.

Use cases: Apps in active growth phase, post-Series-A consolidation, regulated industries (DIFC fintech, Dubai Health Authority)

Shipped on: Cricket Winner has been on continuous post-launch maintenance for 4+ years with zero major incidents during live IPL traffic

Tech stack reasoning

Why Cricket Winner ships on Flutter + Node.js + MongoDB + Kafka — and what that means for your Dubai app

Cricket Winner is our most public proof of how we make mobile-architecture decisions for Dubai clients. Flutter was chosen over native iOS / Android because pixel-perfect parity across the platforms is critical for a sports platform — cricket fans should feel the same product whether they are on a Samsung Galaxy in Dubai, an iPhone 15 in Abu Dhabi, or a budget Android device in Sharjah. Flutter's self-rendered UI engine guarantees that parity in a way native development cannot. We have shipped 18+ Flutter apps in production globally, and the productivity gain compared to maintaining separate iOS and Android codebases is roughly 40-50% — the difference between two mobile engineers and three on the same product.

Node.js + MongoDB on the backend was chosen because Cricket Winner's data shape is genuinely document-oriented — match events, ball-by-ball score data, news articles, expert match predictions, leaderboard rankings — all benefit from MongoDB's flexible document model rather than rigid Postgres schemas. For most Dubai mobile apps we ship, we default to PostgreSQL (transactional integrity, no flash-sale chaos under traffic). MongoDB only when data shape genuinely demands it.

Kafka handles the high-throughput event streams during live IPL matches — when traffic spikes 100× over baseline during a popular match, Kafka absorbs the burst without losing events, replays for any downstream service that needs catch-up, and lets us horizontally scale consumer services independently of producers. For most Dubai mobile engagements we ship, we use RabbitMQ (simpler, sufficient for booking / order / notification flows). Kafka only when event-stream replayability and high throughput matter.

WebSockets for live score sync deliver sub-second updates from match events to user devices. Native APNs / FCM push for breaking news. AWS infrastructure with CloudFront edge nodes in Dubai and Riyadh for sub-50ms latency to UAE end users. The full Cricket Winner stack has scaled through IPL 2023, IPL 2024, IPL 2025, and is currently operating IPL 2026 + T20 World Cup 2026 — zero architecture rewrites required.

Pricing & timeline

How much does mobile app development company in dubai — flutter, react native, ios, and android cost?

Published tiers, not opaque quotes. Every range below is one we have shipped engagements at.

Dubai Mobile Starter (Single-Platform Flutter)

AED 23,000 – 47,000

$6,300 – $12,800

Timeline6-10 weeks
Team1 Flutter engineer, 1 backend engineer, 1 designer (part-time)
ScopeFlutter app for iOS or Android (you pick first), 4-8 screens, auth, 1 payment integration (Telr / PayTabs / Razorpay UAE / Stripe), basic admin panel.
Best forPre-seed Dubai founders, MVPs for accelerator demos, single-platform launches

Dubai Mobile Growth (iOS + Android via Flutter)

AED 47,000 – 117,000

$12,800 – $32,000

Timeline3-5 months
Team2 Flutter engineers, 1 backend, 1 designer, 0.5 PM
ScopeFlutter for iOS + Android, 12-25 screens, payments, push, basic real-time features, admin panel, basic analytics.
Best forSeed Dubai startups, GCC D2C launches, services marketplaces

Dubai Mobile Scale (Multi-App Suite)

AED 117,000 – 281,000

$32,000 – $76,500

Timeline5-9 months
Team3-4 mobile, 2 backend, 1 DevOps, 1 designer, 1 PM, 1 QA
ScopeConsumer + provider/operator apps + Next.js admin, microservices, real-time engine, full analytics. Cricket Winner is in this tier.
Best forSeries-A Dubai startups, sports/media platforms, multi-vendor marketplaces, fintech

Dubai Mobile Enterprise

AED 281,000+

$76,500+

Timeline9+ months
TeamFull pod (6+) plus dedicated SRE
ScopeWhite-label, multi-tenant, native modules, dedicated SRE on-call, SOC 2-aligned, multi-region (UAE + India + global edge).
Best forSeries-B+ Dubai conglomerates, regulated DIFC fintech, Dubai government-tech contractors

Pricing varies with scope, integrations, and compliance needs. Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope written estimate after a 2-week paid discovery — never an open hourly meter.

UAE free-zone landscape

Free-zone-friendly contracts across the UAE

We contract with UAE entities across all major free zones. Templates pre-vetted for compliance.

DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre)

Dubai (Jumeirah Lakes Towers)

100% foreign ownership, 0% corporate tax (until 2024 — now 9% above AED 375k profit), best for trading, commodities, crypto-licensed businesses, and tech companies serving GCC and Africa.

Typical clients we serve here

Crypto exchanges, commodity trading SaaS, GCC-focused tech startups

DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre)

Dubai (Sheikh Zayed Road)

Independent legal jurisdiction based on English common law. Mandatory for fintech, banking, asset management. DFSA-regulated. Best for fintech apps, neobanks, payment processors.

Typical clients we serve here

Fintech apps, neobank MVPs, payment infrastructure, regulated financial software

JAFZA (Jebel Ali Free Zone)

Dubai (Jebel Ali Port)

Largest free zone in the UAE. Best for logistics, supply-chain, manufacturing, and e-commerce companies needing physical fulfilment infrastructure adjacent to Jebel Ali Port.

Typical clients we serve here

Logistics SaaS, e-commerce backends, supply-chain platforms, B2B marketplaces

ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market)

Abu Dhabi (Al Maryah Island)

Independent jurisdiction with English common law, like DIFC. ADGM-regulated. Best for Abu Dhabi-anchored fintech, healthtech (Department of Health Abu Dhabi), and government-tech engagements.

Typical clients we serve here

Abu Dhabi-anchored fintechs, GovTech contractors, healthtech startups

Real case studies

Production case studies — not deck pages

Each mobile app development company in dubai — flutter, react native, ios, and android engagement below is live, in production, and serving real users today.

Cricket Winner — Dubai-built live cricket platform serving millions across the GCC

Problem

Build a live cricket platform for Dubai-based WinnerMedia Sports — sub-second ball-by-ball score updates during live IPL and T20 World Cup matches, breaking cricket news with editorial workflow, fantasy tips, expert match predictions, an opinion-trading engine where cricket fans place views on match outcomes, and a sponsored leaderboard contest engine. The platform had to scale from launch traffic to live IPL-class match traffic without architectural rewrites, support both light and dark mode for users browsing during day and night cricket matches, ship multilingual capability with English-first content, and hit Lighthouse 90+ on the mobile devices common across the UAE and GCC — heterogeneous Android and iOS hardware spanning premium iPhones in Abu Dhabi, mid-range Samsungs in Sharjah, and budget Android in the wider expat market.

Stack

Flutter mobile (iOS + Android from a single Dart codebase, Riverpod state management, Hermes-tuned cold start, native platform channels for biometric auth and payments), Next.js 14 web with App Router and React Server Components for SEO-indexed match-prediction articles, Node.js backend with MongoDB optimised for high-volume cricket event metadata (deliberately Mongo over Postgres because match events are document-shaped — match info, ball-by-ball deliveries, news articles, expert predictions, leaderboard rankings all benefit from flexible schema), WebSockets for sub-second ball-by-ball score sync during live matches, Kafka for high-throughput trading and news event streams that need replayable ingestion when traffic spikes 100× during popular matches, AWS infrastructure with primary in ap-south-1 (Mumbai) for cost-effectiveness and CloudFront edge nodes in Dubai (DXB) and Riyadh for sub-50ms latency to GCC end users, Figma → production design system shipping dark + light mode in lockstep, internal CMS for the editorial team to publish 10+ articles per day, and a sponsored gifts / contest engine integrated with WhatsApp Business API for fan engagement.

Outcome

Live in production for over 4 years. Has scaled through IPL 2023, IPL 2024, IPL 2025, and is currently sustaining live IPL 2026 + T20 World Cup 2026 traffic with sub-second score sync latency on every ball. Active editorial team publishes 10+ articles per day across match predictions, fantasy tips, cricket news, player analysis, and stats deep-dives. Active leaderboard with hundreds of expert participants per month, ranked by accuracy on match and toss predictions. Sponsored advertising and contest engine running 24/7 with brand integrations from major UAE retailers. Bilingual capability (English-first with Arabic support roadmap). Dark mode and light mode both shipping at production parity. iOS, Android, and Web — all from one engineering team. The same Xenotix engineering team that shipped the original product in 2022 is the same team operating it today in 2026 — a 4-year continuity record with zero architecture rewrites despite traffic scaling roughly 100× from launch to current peak IPL match concurrency.

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Bolcall — Flutter dating app with WebSocket voice + chat (Dubai-replicable)

Problem

Build a swipe-and-match dating app with verified profiles, in-app chat, voice calls, and a smart matching algorithm — all in Flutter for fast iteration.

Stack

Flutter, Node.js + PostgreSQL, WebSockets for chat and voice, RabbitMQ for match notifications

Outcome

Live in production with real-time messaging, voice calling, trust signals.

Veda Milk — Three-app Flutter suite for daily subscription D2C (Dubai-replicable)

Problem

Build a Country-Delight-class daily milk subscription system with three apps (customer, delivery boy, admin) end-to-end in 10 weeks.

Stack

Flutter (customer + delivery), Next.js (admin), Node.js, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, AWS

Outcome

Live in production. Same Flutter team that built it operates it today.

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Why founders pick Xenotix

Why Xenotix Labs for mobile app development company in dubai — flutter, react native, ios, and android

Cricket Winner — 4+ years live in UAE App Store

Public, verifiable proof. Download the app right now in the UAE App Store and you are using Xenotix engineering output.

Flutter as default — 18+ apps shipped

We have shipped enough Flutter apps to know the patterns that scale and the ones that do not. Cricket Winner is our largest Flutter engagement.

DUNS-verified Apple + Google publishing

We submit your Dubai app under our DUNS-verified developer accounts globally, or yours. Average 2.4-day first-pass review.

Full-day overlap with Dubai timezone

1.5-hour gap means real-time Slack, daily standups, same-day code review.

AED-first transparent pricing

Four published tiers from AED 23k to AED 281k+. No opaque hourly metering.

Continuity guarantee

Same engineers from kickoff through scale. Cricket Winner team unchanged in 4+ years.

FAQ

Questions UAE founders ask in scoping calls

What's the cheapest Flutter mobile app you'll build for a Dubai founder?

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Our Starter tier is AED 23,000 for a single-platform Flutter app with 4-8 screens, auth, 1 payment integration, and basic admin. Below this, we recommend founders use no-code tools like Glide or FlutterFlow for early validation — and migrate to a proper engagement when validated.

How long until my Dubai mobile app is live in App Store and Play Store?

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Starter tier: 6-10 weeks of build + ~2.4 days first-pass App Store review = roughly 7-11 weeks to live. Growth tier: 3-5 months. Scale tier: 5-9 months. Cricket Winner shipped in approximately 4 months from kickoff to UAE App Store launch.

Should I choose Flutter or React Native for my Dubai app?

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Flutter for most Dubai consumer apps, fintech, and sports/media — visual parity matters and Flutter wins on rendering. React Native if your team is JS-heavy or you want code-share with web. Native iOS / Android only when use case demands (heavy AR, on-device ML, audio DSP). We have shipped all three; we recommend honestly per use case.

Can I see Cricket Winner before signing a contract?

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Yes. Cricket Winner is publicly available at cricketwinner.com and as 'Cricket Winner' in the UAE App Store and Google Play Store. We are happy to give you a 30-minute architecture walkthrough on a discovery call, including the WebSocket score-sync flow, the Kafka event pipeline, and the Figma → production design system.

Do you publish under your developer accounts or mine?

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Either. We are DUNS-verified, so we can publish under our Apple Developer and Google Play Console accounts globally. Or under your accounts if you prefer to maintain ownership of the listings. We recommend publishing under your accounts for long-term ownership; we publish under ours only when you do not have DUNS or accounts set up yet.

What about Arabic localization and RTL layout?

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We ship Flutter apps with full RTL layout support, Arabic typography, and bilingual content management. Native-Arabic translators handle production content (no LLM auto-translation in production without human review). Cricket Winner is English-first with bilingual support; we have a clear pattern for Arabic-first or Arabic + English bilingual launches.

Will my Dubai app handle UAE-specific payments (Telr, PayTabs, Network International)?

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Yes. We have integrated Telr, PayTabs, Network International, Stripe (with UAE merchant accounts), Razorpay UAE, and PayPal across multiple engagements. UPI and Razorpay India are also available for UAE entities serving Indian customers.

Do I own the source code and IP?

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Yes — fully, from day one. The engagement contract has explicit IP-transfer language. You receive the full Git repository, all design files (Figma), AWS account credentials, App Store / Play Store credentials (if published under your accounts), and any third-party service credentials. Mutual NDAs are signed before any scoping conversation.

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