Arizona · Agentic mobile development

Mobile App Development for Founders and Teams in Arizona

From and after December 31, 2026, one kind of app is treated differently under Arizona law. Under A.R.S. 44-1483, a child-directed application, meaning one primarily intended for use or download by children 11 or younger, must take appropriate measures to block ads promoting violence, explicit language, sexual content, or alcohol or drug use. The Attorney General enforces it, with civil penalties up to $100,000 per violation. For a team shipping an ad-supported children's app to iOS and Android, the ad stack becomes compliance work.

Curiosive is a software studio in Ankara, Türkiye. We build mobile apps in React Native, so one TypeScript codebase reaches the App Store and Google Play, with AI coding agents doing the volume and a senior engineer reviewing every change before it merges. We work remotely for teams in the state and have no office there. Phoenix clocks run 10 hours behind Ankara all year, so the work moves through written handoffs rather than shared office hours.

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For US founders and product teams

A US company. An engineering partner you can keep.

Curiosive LLC is our US-registered company. Engineering is led from Ankara, Türkiye, with collaboration across European and US time zones. Your engagement starts with a written scope, monthly capacity and a clear delivery plan.

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Curiosive LLC provides the services. Our US company details and service terms are published, and pricing is in USD.

Know what will ship

Agree scope, capacity and start date before checkout. Work through a prioritized queue, with senior engineers reviewing changes before they reach production.

Keep ownership

Typed, tested and documented code, with no lock-in to our tooling. Define repository access, handover and the working-hour overlap during discovery.

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Arizona's child-directed app rule and the ad SDKs inside your app

The statute judges whether an app is child-directed by its subject matter, visuals, animated characters, the ages of models, incentives and audio. Those are properties of the app itself, so the question is worth answering before any ad network is wired in, not after launch. If the answer is yes, the ad network and mediation settings become part of the appropriate measures that block the four listed categories. We keep those settings in reviewed code and configuration, and the release checklist covers them, rather than leaving them to a dashboard toggle. Federal rules apply at the same time. The FTC's amended COPPA Rule took effect June 23, 2025, and the general compliance deadline of April 22, 2026 has passed, so a child-directed app must already meet it.

Arizona bills on biometrics, minors and AI chat that did not pass

Three 2026 bills that would have changed app design did not become law. SB 1717, on commercial use of biometric identifiers, ended the session held in committees. HB 2991, a social media age-verification bill for minors, cleared a House committee 10 to 1 on February 17, 2026 and reached the Senate Committee of the Whole on June 10, 2026, but its final disposition is 'Held in Senate'. The Governor vetoed HB 2311 on June 19, 2026. From October 1, 2027 it would have required conversational AI services to show a persistent disclaimer, or one at the start of each session that reappears at least every three hours. As of October 5, 2026 none of the three is law. We still structure login, onboarding and any in-app AI chat so that an age gate or an AI disclosure can be added later as a contained change.

Payments in apps for Arizona users: storefront links and the sandbox

Users in the state install from the US storefronts, where the purchase rules differ from other regions. Apple's App Review Guidelines 3.1.1(a) and 3.1.3 let apps on the United States storefront include buttons, external links or other calls to action pointing to purchasing methods other than in-app purchase, with no entitlement needed. Google does not require Google Play Billing for US users and lets developers link to outside prices and transactions through its alternative billing and external content links programs. A finance app has one more option in the state: the Attorney General's regulatory sandbox under A.R.S. 41-5605 gives approved participants 24 months to test an innovation with state-resident consumers, capped at 10,000, or up to 17,500 if the Attorney General finds adequate capitalization, risk management and oversight. Money-transmitter tests only need the consumer to be physically in the state. Either limit has to be reflected in onboarding, so we design that check alongside the entitlement logic on the server.

What coding agents build in a React Native app and what engineers own

Agents handle the volume of a mobile app: screens, navigation, list rendering, form validation, tests and first drafts of store metadata. An engineer scopes each task with acceptance criteria and the boundaries the agent must not cross, the agent runs the type checker, linter and tests before proposing a change, and a senior engineer reads every diff. Engineers own token storage in the Keychain on iOS and the Keystore on Android, auth refresh, server-side receipt and entitlement checks, offline and reconnection behaviour, permission prompts, in-app account deletion and the privacy declarations reviewed at submission. Storage choices carry weight here: A.R.S. 18-552 attaches breach notice duties to unencrypted computerized personal information, so what the app keeps on the device, and whether it is encrypted, is a design decision. TrendinChat (trendin.chat), a real-time chat app for a client in Türkiye, was built in React Native with Supabase in two weeks, and Coffict (coffict.com), an ordering and loyalty app, is also React Native.

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Published project examples

TrendinChat

Coffict

This is HCD

MoneyCare

Appster

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Questions

The things people ask before starting.

Does Arizona's child-directed app law apply to my app?

It applies from after December 31, 2026 if your app is primarily intended for use or download by children 11 or younger. The test weighs subject matter, visuals, animated characters, models' ages, incentives and audio. A covered app must block ads promoting violence, explicit language, sexual content, or alcohol or drug use. It is worth confirming your app's status with a lawyer before launch.

Does Face ID login in an Arizona app need special biometric consent?

Not from a 2026 Arizona statute: SB 1717, the state's biometric privacy bill, did not pass and was held in committees. We use the system biometric prompt, so the app receives a pass or fail result and keeps its session token in the Keychain or Keystore.

Can my iOS app send Arizona users to a web checkout instead of in-app purchase?

Yes, on the United States storefront, where Apple's guidelines 3.1.1(a) and 3.1.3 allow purchase links and buttons without an entitlement. On December 11, 2025 the Ninth Circuit held Apple may charge a commission on linked-out purchases as the district court permits. On Android, Google's program participants pay service fees from October 1, 2026, though external content links were given until December 1, 2026.

Does Arizona have a law requiring AI disclosure in a chatbot app?

No. The Governor vetoed HB 2311 on June 19, 2026, so no state AI chatbot disclosure law is in force. Had it become law, operators of publicly available conversational AI services would have needed a visible AI disclaimer from October 1, 2027. Keeping any disclosure as a separate component means adding one later stays a small change.

What does mobile app development with Curiosive cost?

It starts from $2,000 per month, which is our only offer: AI-accelerated development with scope and capacity agreed in writing after a discovery call. There is no long contract to begin. Repository, database and hosting accounts are opened in your name or connected to ones you already hold, so the app's code is yours from the first commit.

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You get a reply within a day
From the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team. If we are not the right fit we say so, and where possible we point you somewhere better.
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You get a scoped plan
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No long contract to begin, no lock-in to our tooling, and the code is yours from the first commit.

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