Mobile App Development Staff Augmentation: Who to Add, Who Owns the Release, and What the Stores Demand

Most guides on mobile app development staff augmentation stop at the same place. Skills are scarce, augmentation is faster than hiring, here are ten roles, here is a form.
That does not help a founder with a launch date. You need to know who to add first, who holds the signing keys when the contract ends, and what Apple and Google are going to demand of your build this year.
This guide covers those three. It gives the hiring order rather than a role list, it names the accounts that must stay with your company, and it prints the platform dates that decide your release calendar.
No rates appear here. Some pages on this query publish an hourly figure, which is the wrong number for a small team. What a mobile app development budget needs is how many people, for how long, and in what order, and that is what the sections below give you