Android Developer

Android Developer

On the IT spectrum, a career in Android Development is pretty appealing as the current vast demand for skilled Mobile and Android Developers in the UK is outweighing the candidate pool available. In conjunction with the continued demand for smartphones, this translates to strong job retention and secure job prospects for Android Developers. 

An Android Developer is responsible for creating applications for the Android mobile format. Android Developers create the Android application’s design and build its functionality, writing clean code and creating well thought out architecture to avoid bugs where possible. Building Android applications requires deep knowledge of programming and design, and requires a mastery of a number of more nuanced concepts. For example, mobile devices have much smaller screens, simple processors and Android itself has many different manufacturers, so Android Developers need to keep their code flexible to account for multiple user scenarios.

Android Developers need a specialist set of skills to execute their job well, including experience in working with databases and APIs, unit testing, fixing bugs and more. Crucially, a successful Android Developer will have first-rate communication skills as they’ll be required to collaborate across teams, like UI/UX designers and backend developers.

Android Developers use ‘Android SDK’, which is stands for ‘Android Software Development Kit’, which contains pre-packaged code pertaining to Android development. Other technologies an Android Developer may use are Java (the language that underpins all Android development), XML (the standard way to encode data for internet-based applications. In Android development, XML is used to create layouts that serve as the foundational UI definition for the Android application), APIs and Databases.

For success as an Android Developer, you must keep pace with new and emerging technologies in mobile development. It’s impossible to be a strong developer in today’s rapidly developing high-tech world, without paying due attention to learning or putting time into developing your craft. Passion for Android Development will act as appealing leverage to employers, as well as advocating Agile methodologies and good business knowledge of an industry. As with most other roles, as an Android Developer the higher your level of expertise and the broader your experience, the higher the salary (as well as location, as Android Developer roles in London tend to offer more).

If you are an Android Developer at any level in search of a new opportunity, get in touch with one of our specialist consultants today to find the right role for you.

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