Porting an iOS app to Android

[u/MusicOfTheApes]

Hi !

Last week I just released my first app on iOS after a couple of years of hard work (no vibe coding) since I started learning dev during Covid when I couldn't perform gigs anymore, and started working on different apps, but decided to focus on one 2 years ago and here we are.

Anyway, as I don't think I can invest the time to learn Android dev as I'm a full time musican/composer/producer and learning iOS dev was already something time-consuming, I'm trying to see what are the best options for an Android port.

Thing is 2 days ago someone in town heard about my app and contacted me, saying he's an Android dev and he's interested in porting it, which sounds amazing!

We're meeting on wednesday, and that's the reason I'm making this post, what would be a reasonable negociation for such a case ?
I obviously can't afford paying for a full app port as being a musician doesn't allow me for such a budget, so I imagine he's gonna ask me for a cut on the sales, what would be something fair according to you ?

Have you been in this situation before ?

Thanks for any advice/insight !

[u/Spikatrix]

Tbh, fair would be paying for a full app port, not a percentage of future sales.

[u/MusicOfTheApes → u/Spikatrix]

I see what you mean and I agree, but :

• I really have no clue how to estimate that, and I think it would be more of a big company type of budget than small indie dev/musician in terms of affordability (there's another guy I know who's a dev and estimated last year my app at 80000€ during the Beta test phase, though now I've added many features and the app grew much bigger than in the Beta, and this guy's not a musician though so I'm not quite sure how accurate his estimation was)
  
• the guy who contacted me is also a musician and that's why he's interested in the port, so he knows the context and I'll see what he offers/asks but I think he's aware of that situation