OTT Streaming Mobile App Development

I’m building a full-scale OTT service inspired by Zee5 and now need the companion Android and iOS apps engineered from the ground up. The heart of the product is seamless, high-quality video delivery, so the app must comfortably handle both on-demand titles and a lineup of live TV channels with adaptive bitrate streaming, DRM protection and offline download capability where licences allow.

Every user will sign in (email, social, or phone) and create individual profiles under the same account, so the codebase has to manage profile switching, watch-history separation and personalised recommendations in the future. Subscriptions will be taken through standard credit/debit card checkout on our server as well as native in-app purchases on Google Play and the App Store; you’ll wire up the respective SDKs, ensure receipt validation and expose subscription status through secure APIs.

Key feature set
• Video streaming
• Live TV
• Profile-based user authentication
• Payments: Credit/Debit Card & in-app purchases

Deliverables
1. Native or cross-platform source code (Kotlin/Swift, Flutter or React Native are all fine if performance targets are met).
2. Integrated player with DRM, subtitles and Chromecast/AirPlay support.
3. Polished UI/UX that mirrors leading OTT standards.
4. End-to-end testing on the latest Android & iOS versions, plus hand-off builds ready for Play Console and App Store Connect.
5. Brief technical documentation and a short handover call so my backend team can maintain future builds.

If you’ve shipped a streaming app before and can prove smooth playback at scale, let’s talk timelines and architecture choices.