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Costs, store rules and build decisions for Android, iOS and cross-platform apps.
What a coaching institute, tuition or test prep app costs in India in 2026: custom build ranges, white-label platform prices, running costs, store commission, GST and DPDP.
Manu Shukla 
From 31 August 2026 every new app and app update on Google Play must target Android 16 (API level 36), and existing apps need API 35 just to stay visible to new users. That deadline is 13 days out. Here is how it
Manu Shukla 
Meta's Quest submission rules cap APKs at 1 GB, demand 64-bit binaries and head-tracked graphics within 4 seconds. Unity Pro, required to publish to Apple Vision Pro, costs $2,310 per seat per year. What an AR or VR
Manu Shukla 
Swiggy Instamart reported 1,171 dark stores and 1,089 orders per store per day in Q1 FY2027, on 4.92 million sq ft. A build guide to the routing, compliance and billing decisions behind a grocery delivery app.
Manu Shukla 
The Government of India put logistics cost at 7.97% of GDP in September 2025 and disowned the 13-14% figure everyone still quotes. A build guide to the e-way bill APIs, ePOD evidence rules and routing costs behind
Manu Shukla 
App maintenance is not a retainer for bug fixes. It is a calendar of externally imposed deadlines with delisting and blocked deployments at the end of them, and 2026 has an unusually crowded one.
Manu Shukla 
Launching your own ordering app reclassifies you under FSSAI as an e-commerce food business operator, at a Rs 7,500 central licence with no turnover threshold. The CCI price-parity case, the POS integration work
Manu Shukla 
Google Play's Child Safety Standards policy applies to any app that declares itself Social in Play Console, and the presence or absence of child users is explicitly irrelevant. Five declarations now gate a social app
Manu Shukla 
Choosing a software development company in Gurgaon is a legal and diligence exercise before it is a technical one. Six checks that decide who owns the code, what the DPDP Act requires and how to verify a vendor for free.
Manu Shukla 
The 2020 Telemedicine Practice Guidelines put a drug-list matrix at the centre of your product logic, ABDM turns record exchange into a consent problem, and the DPDP Act does something most people get wrong about health
Manu Shukla 
The free flight-search API most travel app tutorials start from was decommissioned in July 2026. Five build decisions that decide what a travel app costs to run, covering distribution, refunds, recurring payments
Manu Shukla 
Delivery, not code, is what makes an OTT platform expensive. Published 2026 rates from AWS, Mux, Cloudflare, Bunny and EZDRM, plus the IT Rules 2021 obligations every Indian streaming app has to build for.
Manu Shukla 
Every published India app development rate card traces back to a company selling app development. Here is what is actually verifiable in 2026: platform fees, tax treatment, deadline-driven work, and the one cost
Manu Shukla 
Rate cards are the worst way to choose a custom software development company. Stack Overflow's 2025 survey, NASSCOM's FY2025 review and the DPDP Rules give you seven numbers that predict a build far better than
Manu Shukla 
From 26 August 2026 Google Play requires apps whose core function is dating or matchmaking to enable Restrict Minor Access, which also blocks renewals for affected users. Here is the engineering and commercial plan
Manu Shukla 
Google Fit APIs die at the end of 2026 and the REST API has no replacement at all. Any fitness app holding cloud-side health data has a migration, not an upgrade. Here is what the Android Health platform actually gives
Manu Shukla 
Choosing an Indian app development company in 2026 is a due-diligence problem, not a price problem. Nine checks covering rate evidence, attrition, DPDP timelines and the 31 August 2026 Play Store deadline.
Manu Shukla 
India's aggregator rules now decide most of a taxi app's feature list: a 2x surge ceiling, an 80% driver share and a CERT-In certified build. What that means for scope, stack and cost.
Manu Shukla 