It’s not unusual for a company to turn to a third party to build a mobile app because of its lack of expertise, but more often it’s because the company’s developers don’t have the existing bandwidth for a new project. What it costs to hire a company to build a mobile app for you can vary dramatically and depends on several factors: what you want to do, how complicated it is to implement, how polished you need the app to be, and how easy you are to work with. This report tells you what to do — and what to avoid — if you want to keep the cost and time to develop a mobile app low.