How to Hire a Great Remote Developers Android Developer?
As With Any Technology, There’s Knowing Android And Then There’s Really Knowing Android. This Guide Offers A Sampling Of Questions That Are Key To Evaluating The Breadth And Depth Of A Candidate’s Mastery Of The Android Mobile Framework When Looking To Hire Android App Developers Part-Time Or Full-Time.
The Challenge
Android Has Become The Dominant Smartphone Platform On The Planet With Over 81% Market Share (More Than Apple Ios’ 15% And Microsoft Windows’ 4% Combined) And 240 Million Mobile Devices Worldwide. Not Too Shabby. With That Comes Enormous Demand For Developer Talent, So Locating Elite Android App Developers Can Be A Daunting Task.
Finding Them Requires A Highly-Effective Recruiting Process, As Described In Our Post In Search Of The Elite Few – Finding And Hiring The Best Software Developers In The Industry. Such A Process Can Then Be Augmented With Questions-Such As Those Presented Herein-To Identify Those Sparsely Distributed Candidates Across The Globe Who Are True Android Experts.
Android Is A Smartphone Operating System Built On Top Of Linux Based On Java And XML. Since The Android OS Is Not Just A Language, But A Complete, Rich And Growing Software Framework, It Has A Lot To Master. As Of This Writing, Android Is In Its 7Th Year, Now At Version 4.4 (“Kitkat”) And Has Undergone 19 SDK Releases.
Google Introduced Android As An Open Source Project In 2007 (See AOSP) So It Could Get A Foothold In The Emerging Smartphone Market. Numerous Hardware Vendors Have Used Android For Their Handsets (Samsung, HTC, Sony, Motorola And LG Just To Name A Few), Often Adding Their Own Custom
Features And Code. This Sometimes Creates Additional Headaches For Developers When Incompatibilities Or Vendor-Specific Bugs Arise (Read: Workarounds). Android Itself Isn’t A Perfect Mobile App Development OS Either, Of Course – With Its Sometimes Lacking Documentation And Some Quirky- Behaving Code – But It Is Still Certainly A Force To Be Reckoned With.
The Android Application Development Platform Offers A Plethora Of Features And Support Classes:
- User Interface, Animation, Graphics, Varying Screen Size Support And Orientations
- Touch Screen Keyboards And Gesture Recognition
- Databases, Content Providers, Content Resolvers, Adapters
- Location Detection, Sensors, expectformus
- Threading Options
- Accelerated Computation
- Inter-App Communication
- Media Playback And Recording
- Networking And Connectivity
- Google Play Store And In-App Billing
- Localization
- Debugging Tools
- And Much More…
The Following Snippet Shows A Custom Contactadapter That Displays Contacts In A Listview. (Note: Only The More Important Methods Required Are Shown.)
