Web, ecommerce & Android app development for Letchworth

Why choose New Media Aid?
We develop complex web apps, Android apps and ecommerce websites and have provided low cost, bespoke app development services since the year 2000 - only 3 miles from Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The development cost of a bespoke Android app, web app or ecommerce website for organisations in Hertfordshire will usually be between £2,000 and £5,000.

We develop bespoke, responsive, mobile-friendly web apps and e-commerce websites as well as cutting-edge Android apps for organisations ranging from multi-national blue chip organisations to SMEs in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

We keep abreast of all the latest trends and technologies in web app development, ecommerce website design and bespoke Android app development to make sure we offer the most advanced, secure and robust application solutions for our clients in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

Useless fact
As well as being the distance in miles from Letchworth to our app development office in Hitchin, 3 is also the version of Android released in February 2011, the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) SDK which was the first tablet-only Android update and was based on Linux kernel 2.6.36. (Android Honeycomb).


Useful Android app developers term of the day: Jetpack Compose

Android Jetpack Compose is a modern UI toolkit for building native Android apps using a declarative programming model. It was introduced by Google in 2019 and has since gained popularity as a powerful and flexible way to create Android app interfaces.

Compose allows developers to create UI elements using a set of Kotlin APIs, rather than the traditional XML-based approach. This makes it easier to create complex layouts, animations, and interactions, as well as simplify the code for UI creation.

Some of the key benefits of using Compose include:

  • Simplified UI development: With Compose, developers can define UI elements in a more intuitive and efficient way, without the need for complex XML layouts and separate code for logic and UI. This can help reduce the amount of boilerplate code and improve the readability and maintainability of the app codebase.
  • More flexible and dynamic UIs: Compose allows for more dynamic and responsive UIs, with the ability to easily create animations, transitions, and custom interactions. This can help improve the overall user experience and engagement with the app.
  • Better performance: Compose uses a more efficient rendering engine, which can help reduce the amount of work required to render UI elements and improve the app's overall performance.
  • Better integration with Kotlin: Compose is built using Kotlin, which means that developers can take advantage of Kotlin's features and benefits, such as null safety, extension functions, and coroutines.

Overall, Android Jetpack Compose provides a modern and flexible way to create Android app interfaces, with improved efficiency, performance, and developer experience.


Android Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit for building native Android UIs (user interfaces). It allows developers to create Android UIs using a declarative approach, meaning that the UI is described using a hierarchy of UI elements rather than writing imperative code to create each UI element.

Jetpack Compose was announced by Google in 2019 and was released in beta in 2020. It has gained popularity among Android developers due to its simplicity, ease of use, and flexibility. With Jetpack Compose, developers can create beautiful, responsive, and highly customizable UIs with less code.

Some key features of Jetpack Compose include:

  1. Declarative UI programming: With Jetpack Compose, developers describe the UI using a hierarchy of composable functions. These functions are responsible for rendering UI elements, and they can be combined and reused to create complex UIs.

  2. State management: Jetpack Compose provides a built-in state management system that makes it easy to manage the state of UI components. This system uses immutable data structures and supports a variety of state management techniques such as LiveData, ViewModel, and RxJava.

  3. Material Design: Jetpack Compose comes with built-in support for Material Design, Google's design system for Android. This includes pre-built UI components such as buttons, text fields, and dialogs, as well as utilities for theming and customizing the UI.

  4. Interoperability: Jetpack Compose is designed to work seamlessly with existing Android UI frameworks such as View and ViewGroup, making it easy to adopt in existing Android projects.

Overall, Jetpack Compose represents a significant shift in the way Android UIs are built, and it offers many benefits to developers in terms of productivity, maintainability, and flexibility.



Crimes reported in Letchworth
Our custom app development prices are criminally low, but not as criminal as these events recently reported in Letchworth.

Why are we showing recent crimes in Letchworth Hertfordshire?
We are showing a few example crimes for Letchworth reported in Jan 2025 to demonstrate how we can integrate data from external web service APIs. As expert software engineers we specialise in developing complex bespoke web apps which integrate with other cloud-based systems and data-sets!

bicycle theft
  • Parking Area (Under investigation)
  • Letchworth (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
burglary
  • Protea Way (Under investigation)
  • Parking Area (Under investigation)
  • Protea Way (Under investigation)
  • Parking Area (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
  • Pix Road (Under investigation)
criminal damage arson
  • Hartington Place (Under investigation)
  • Sherwood (Under investigation)
  • Normans Close (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
  • Shopping Area (Unable to prosecute suspect)
  • Station Road (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
drugs
  • Kite Way (Under investigation)
  • Wilbury Close (Under investigation)
  • Pix Road (Under investigation)
other theft
  • Parking Area (Under investigation)
  • The Birches (Under investigation)
public order
  • Petrol Station (Under investigation)
  • Daisy Court (Under investigation)
  • Swift Close (Under investigation)
  • Rowland Way (Under investigation)
  • Station Place (Under investigation)
robbery
  • Station Road (Under investigation)
  • Haysman Close (Under investigation)
shoplifting
  • Valley Road (Under investigation)
  • Station Road (Under investigation)
  • Gernon Road (Under investigation)
  • Parking Area (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
  • Station Road (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
vehicle crime
  • Arena Parade (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
  • Talbot Way (Investigation complete; no suspect identified)
violent crime
  • Leys Avenue (Under investigation)
  • Chasten Hill (Under investigation)
  • Kimberley (Under investigation)
  • Rushby Walk (Under investigation)
  • Stoneley (Under investigation)
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