Built a mobile app with Base44?
We'll make it production-ready.
Mobile apps live on someone's phone — the most personal device they own. Users expect instant load times, smooth animations, offline support, and zero crashes. AI tools can scaffold a mobile UI fast, but the gap between a working prototype and an app that survives App Store review, handles spotty network connections, and doesn't drain the battery is where most AI-built mobile apps fail.
Mobile App challenges in Base44 apps
Building a mobile app with Base44 is a great start — but these challenges need attention before launch.
App Store and Play Store approval
Apple and Google have strict review guidelines covering permissions, privacy policies, content ratings, and technical requirements. AI-generated apps frequently get rejected for missing privacy disclosures, requesting unnecessary permissions, or failing to handle edge cases that reviewers specifically test for.
Offline functionality and network handling
Mobile users lose connectivity constantly — in elevators, on subways, in rural areas. AI tools build apps that assume a constant internet connection. Without offline caching, request queuing, and graceful degradation, your app shows blank screens or crashes when the network drops.
Device fragmentation and screen sizes
Your app needs to work on hundreds of different devices — from small Android phones to large tablets, with notches, punch-holes, and different aspect ratios. AI-generated layouts often break on devices other than the one used during development.
Performance and battery drain
Mobile users notice when an app drains their battery or feels sluggish. Unoptimized rendering, excessive API polling, background processes that never stop, and memory leaks are common in AI-generated mobile code. These issues cause uninstalls faster than missing features.
Push notifications
Setting up push notifications requires server-side infrastructure, device token management, platform-specific configuration (APNs for iOS, FCM for Android), and proper permission handling. AI tools generate a basic notification call but skip the entire delivery pipeline.
Secure local storage
Mobile apps store auth tokens, user preferences, and cached data on-device. AI tools often use insecure storage methods (plain shared preferences or AsyncStorage) instead of encrypted keystores. Anyone with physical access to the device could extract sensitive data.
What we check in your Base44 mobile app
Common Base44 issues we fix
Beyond mobile app-specific issues, these are Base44 patterns we commonly fix.
Platform lock-in makes it expensive to migrate to self-hosted infrastructure
Base44 applications run on Base44's infrastructure with proprietary abstractions. If you need to migrate to AWS, Vercel, or a custom backend, you must substantially rewrite the application since the generated code is tightly coupled to Base44's runtime.
Auto-generated backend API lacks input validation and allows malformed data into the database
Base44's generated REST API endpoints often accept and persist any data that matches the field type without business-rule validation — missing required fields, out-of-range values, or invalid relationships are stored without error.
Limited customization of business logic after the initial app generation
Once Base44 generates the application structure, adding custom business logic that deviates from the generated patterns — complex workflows, conditional processing, third-party integrations — requires working around the platform rather than with it.
Database schema changes after initial generation are difficult and risk data loss
Modifying the generated database schema after data has been collected — adding columns, changing relationships, renaming tables — is fragile in Base44 and may require manual data migration that the platform does not assist with.
Start with a self-serve audit
Get a professional review of your Base44 mobile app at a fixed price.
External Security Scan
Black-box review of your public-facing app. No code access needed.
- OWASP Top 10 vulnerability check
- SSL/TLS configuration analysis
- Security header assessment
- Expert review within 24h
Code Audit
In-depth review of your source code for security, quality, and best practices.
- Security vulnerability analysis
- Code quality review
- Dependency audit
- Architecture review
- Expert + AI code analysis
Complete Bundle
Both scans in one package with cross-referenced findings.
- Everything in both products
- Cross-referenced findings
- Unified action plan
100% credited toward any paid service. Start with an audit, then let us fix what we find.
Frequently asked questions
Can I build a mobile app with Base44?
Base44 is a great starting point for a mobile app. It handles the initial scaffolding well, but mobile apps have specific requirements — app store and play store approval and offline functionality and network handling — that need professional attention before launch.
What issues does Base44 leave in mobile apps?
Common issues include: platform lock-in makes it expensive to migrate to self-hosted infrastructure, auto-generated backend api lacks input validation and allows malformed data into the database, limited customization of business logic after the initial app generation. For a mobile app specifically, these issues are compounded by the need for app store and play store approval.
How do I make my Base44 mobile app production-ready?
Start with our code audit ($19) to get a clear picture of what needs fixing. For most Base44-built mobile apps, the critical path is: security review, then fixing core flow reliability, then deployment. We provide a fixed quote after the audit.
How much does it cost to fix a Base44-built mobile app?
Our code audit is $19 and gives you a complete report of issues. Fixes start at $199 with our Fix & Ship plan. For larger mobile app projects, we provide a custom fixed quote after the audit — no hourly billing.
Get your Base44 mobile app production-ready
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