Cost of a Android Native (Kotlin)
job portal app.

Founders looking at Android Native (Kotlin) for a Job Portal usually want one number, but the honest answer is a range, and it depends on what "done" means for your version. ₹70,000–1.5 lakh gets you a working MVP with the core flow working end to end. ₹3–6 lakh covers a production build with the extra features that turn a demo into something people keep using. ₹12–25 lakh+ is where you land once uptime guarantees or access controls enter the picture. Android only It is a real part of why these numbers sit where they do, and it is one of the first decisions worth locking down before development starts, not renegotiating halfway through.

A reasonable choice if you're launching Android-only first in an Android-dominant market like India, with iOS planned later. That is the general case for Android Native (Kotlin). The more useful question is whether it holds for a Job Portal specifically, and mostly it does. Categories differ a lot in how much they depend on deep platform integration versus staying consistent across devices, and that difference should drive the stack decision more than habit or hype. For this category, the balance tips toward strengths this stack is genuinely good at, which is why experienced teams keep choosing it here. It is worth checking this reasoning against your own feature list rather than accepting it blindly. A studio that has shipped this category before should point to specific features where the stack choice actually mattered.

What Actually Drives The Price

If you want to know why one job portal quote comes in at half the price of another, here is the single factor that moves the price more than anything else: Resume parsing/matching quality, the feature that separates a job board from a job portal. Two products in this category can share a name and a similar feature list while needing very different amounts of engineering work, because one keeps this part simple and the other does not. Here is a real example. Two teams scope what looks like the same app, but one quietly assumes the simple version while the other needs a much more complex version of the same requirement. That gap alone can add weeks of work that never shows up on a feature list.

How We Scope And Build It

Scoping a Job Portal on Android Native (Kotlin) well starts with a real founder workshop, not a sales call disguised as one. A session where the team maps out user flows, the data model, and integrations before anyone commits to a number. After that, the build should move in fixed sprints, each ending in a working demo instead of a status update. This lets you watch the product take shape screen by screen, instead of trusting a schedule on paper. Weekly demos matter more than they sound like they should, because they catch misalignment early, when it costs an afternoon to fix, not a whole sprint. A senior engineer should also own the architecture decisions from day one, since early choices are expensive to undo later.