Mobile App Development in Dallas Fort Worth

Mobile app development for the Dallas Fort Worth market

Dallas Fort Worth is a logistics and operations economy. Two major airports, one of the largest intermodal freight hubs in the country, corporate headquarters in Plano, Irving and Frisco, and thousands of home services, construction and distribution businesses across the Metroplex all depend on people in the field doing work that the office needs to see in real time. That is what mobile software is for.

Tepia serves Dallas Fort Worth from its Austin office, about three hours down Interstate 35. Kickoffs, user interviews and training can happen in person in the Metroplex, and all status calls and demos run in Central time. Tepia has been building apps for thirteen years and focuses on products people keep using, which it calls apps engineered for retention.

The companies that get the most from Tepia in DFW are usually operators rather than consumer startups: a regional HVAC company that has outgrown its field software, a third party logistics provider that needs a driver app, or an enterprise that needs a workforce app that connects to systems it already runs.

How Tepia approaches mobile app development in Dallas Fort Worth

Tepia uses a six phase process on every project: Discovery, Design, Development and Testing, Training, Launch and Support. The full version is on the Tepia process page. For a DFW field or logistics app, it plays out like this.

Discovery

Tepia’s team investigates your current systems, interviews the people who will use the app (dispatchers, drivers, technicians, office staff) and reviews every third party integration, from telematics to accounting. Deliverables are an Investigation Summary, an Interview Summary and User Stories. Discovery typically takes 1 to 3 months and is shorter when you already have specs.

Design

A design questionnaire, moodboards, a style guide, detailed wireframes and sample designs. Field apps are designed for sunlight, gloves and one handed use, because that is how they get used.

Development and Testing

Alpha and Beta schedules with written test plans for functional, user acceptance and non functional testing, including offline first sync and push notifications where the job requires them. Development and QA typically take 2 to 6 months.

Training, Launch and Support

Tepia trains crews hands on, in person in DFW or remote, using user story scenarios. Launch includes data migration from the old system and support reps on rollout, about 1 month.

How the Tepia US led team model works for DFW clients

Tepia’s model is US leadership with individually sourced global talent. Your project manager, design lead and engineering lead are US based. Engineers are hand picked for your project and work in hours that overlap with Central time. Tepia is not a body shop: you get named people, not a rotating cast.

Meetings follow a set rhythm. A kickoff in person in the Metroplex or over video, a weekly status call during Central business hours, and sprint demos of working software. Between calls, you have a shared backlog, a written changelog and a direct line to your project manager. Operational escalations go to Dustin Gordon, Director of Operations, and technical ones to Fahad Baig, Technical Lead Manager.

For an operations company, the practical benefit is that a dispatcher in Fort Worth can report a problem at 9 a.m. and talk to the engineer who can fix it before lunch, in plain English, without a ticket queue in another hemisphere.

App types Tepia builds for Dallas Fort Worth companies

• See Tepia’s field service management software development page and the live dispatch and work order features reference.
• Logistics and delivery apps. Driver apps with proof of delivery, route status, customer notifications and dispatcher dashboards, described on the logistics app development page.
• Enterprise workforce apps. Inspections, safety checklists, inventory counts and approvals that connect to ERP, HR and payroll systems through REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Customer facing apps for retail and restaurants. Ordering, loyalty and membership, similar to Tepia’s MNC Go grocery ordering app.
• Connected device apps. Mobile and admin software for IoT hardware, like Tepia’s Maximum Controls project for gate control.

Tepia builds in Swift and SwiftUI, Kotlin, React Native or Flutter depending on the product, with Node.js, .NET or Python backends on AWS, Azure or GCP, and integrates with ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, Twilio and Zapier.

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