The Cost of Developing an Android-Based Food Delivery App in 2025

Are you a foodie who loves to order meals online and get it delivered to the door steps without any hassle? You just have to pay the additional charges for the food being delivered to the door steps and in the end, you will have to enjoy the meal by sitting at home.

The basic features like, allowing the users to browse through the menu and place the orders after selecting the delivery locations. Moreover, enabling the users to create accounts and securely access the applications. Lastly, handling the secure online payment options using the different payment options that actually makes the food delivery more efficient.

A food delivery app development company is a reliable source of building, worthy and projectile food delivery applications based with alluring visuals and other features that entices the end users to spend more in app designs.

Also you know, developing a food delivery app in 2025 would require careful planning for the features, and a strategic pathway and tech stack that could be used beneath the web app. The total expenditure would would be discussed within this blog:

We will first discuss the features and then the costing impacting the overall working to know better about the metrics of the food delivery application:

Mandatory Features for a Food Delivery App

Creating a food delivery app involves integrating essential features that ensure smooth functionality, user engagement, and operational efficiency for all stakeholders—customers, restaurants, and delivery personnel. Below are the mandatory features categorized by user type:

1.    User Registration and Login

The first feature that we are going to talk about is the user registration and login that should be present within the food delivery application because whenever a user is going to use the app for ordering something, they will have to manage everything and entering the location plus address along with the cellular number requires them to register and enter everything beforehand.

After a successful registration, they will get the login details on the registered email address through which they can login into the app.

2.    Restaurant Listing and Filters

The food delivery app should have the restaurant listing and categorization feature that allows them to filter the cafes based on their desired cuisine like chinese, thai, italian, or indian food.  Therefore, the app developer who is developing the app should add the filtration option for the users to witness the amazing digital edge themselves through the palm of their hands.

3.    Searching for Desired Cafes

The third feature associated with the food ordering application is to allow the end users to search for their desired eatery items and get everything delivered to their door steps. The search panel should allow them to look up for their desired cafes, and get promotional offers as well if anything is happening within the cafe nearby.

4.    Order Management

After placing the order, if the user feels like cancelling the food, or adding or removing something from the cart, the order management feature should allow them to do that within the next 30 minutes, however, if the decided time slot is passed, they should not get the feature to do it. It should be decided beforehand and the app developer should discuss this with the clients.

A professional android app development company will also hire the app developers with great experience to work on food delivery apps, and come up with options that are supposed to be a great relief for them.

5.    Real Time Ordering

Most of the applications like, Foodpanda or UberEats now share the real time updates of the food like, if it’s being prepared or being delivered to you on the right time. Even if something is out for delivery, they will get the notifications through the panel and once it’s delivered to the doorsteps, they can enjoy the meal with their friends and get a successfully delivered food message on the panel.

6.    Payment Gateway Integration

The sixth feature associated is the payment gateway integration within the food delivery application like allowing the users to add up their credit cards, debit cards, digital wallets, UPI, or even COD option. A secured and PCI-compliant transaction should be performed to get the benefits of everything!

7.    Rating and Reviews

Lastly, once a customer has enjoyed ordering anything from their favorite restaurant through the app then, they should be given an option to rate their experience, and add up reviews related to the overall experience. Through this, the new landing customers can read up from the posted reviews and build up their minds as to whether they are going to make the order from that cafe or not… Isn’t it a great deal?

The costing associated with android food delivery app

The cost for a food delivery app depends on multiple features like;

• Features and complexity
  
  
• Development team location
  
  
• UI/UX design quality
  
  
• Backend infrastructure
  
  
• Third-party integrations (payment gateways, map APIs, etc.)
  
  

A full time mobile application development agency will cost you around, estimated total hours will be 1,800 – 2,500 hrs whereas, the cost ranges from $54,000 – $75,000 (at $30/hr) and lastly,  the pricing will lie somewhere between $108,000 – $150,000 (at $60/hr).

Few Factors That Impacts The Food Delivery App Costing

1. Development region (India/Eastern Europe = cheaper; US/UK = expensive)
2. Native Android app vs. cross-platform app
3. In-house backend vs. cloud-native solutions like Firebase

Wrapping Up

And we are done for the day. If you add all the mentioned features and focus on the strengthening of the security practices then, there are chances that your end users will enjoy using your food delivery app and indeed it’s one of the best and most fulfilling digital experiences for them. But, again for that reason, you will have to work closely with big multinational companies and understand how things are happening and reach the final stage of app deployment. Quality always matters, and it’s really important for the app developers to focus on both technical and frontend aspects for better results.