Hire an Android App Developer
Android
Hire an Android App Developer Who Has Shipped Before
When you hire an Android app developer, what you are really buying is the number of times that person has done it before. Not the years on the CV, not the list of technologies. The count of apps they have put in front of real users and kept running afterwards. Android is a platform where almost everything that goes wrong is something you only learn by having it go wrong on you once.
So this is what we look for. Apps actually published to the Play Store, not prototypes and internal demos. Submissions that came back rejected, and the developer who read the policy, fixed the cause, and got the next build through. Device fragmentation handled in practice, meaning the app behaves on old hardware, on the screen sizes nobody tests, and under the battery rules each manufacturer applies differently. Production users, which is the only condition under which crashes, permissions, and background work reveal what they really do. A developer who has been through all of that arrives knowing where the traps are. One who hasn't will find them on your project.
Which is why we ask you to check the experience before you check the CV. A CV tells you what someone was present for. What you want to know is what they shipped, what broke, and what they did about it. Ask any Android programmer we put forward those three questions directly, and expect specific answers, because we have already asked them ourselves.
Ongoing
Hire Dedicated Android App Developers for Ongoing Work
An app is not finished when it ships. It needs testing at every stage, fixes as real devices and real users find the edges, and new features as you learn what people actually use. That work is continuous and uneven, which is why we let you hire dedicated Android app developers on the hours the project needs rather than on a salary you carry every month whether there is work or not. Busy months and quiet months cost what they cost.
What you get for it is continuity. The same developer stays on the codebase, so they already know why a decision was made two releases ago and do not have to be re introduced to your app every time something changes. They test each stage as it lands rather than discovering problems in a handover document, and when you want a new feature the person building it is the person who built everything around it.
That is the opposite of a one time build that ends the day the app goes live and leaves you looking for whoever will take it on next. It is also the opposite of handing your product to a team you have never met, cannot get hold of during your working day, and have no way to hold accountable. You know who is on your app, you can reach them in your own hours, and the accountability sits with us rather than disappearing into a timezone.
Cost
What It Costs to Hire an Android Programmer
Two things set the price: the level of seniority the work genuinely calls for, and how complex the app is. A focused app built on well understood ground and a product with offline behaviour, payments, and a backend to integrate against are not the same job, and pretending they cost the same helps nobody.
For most projects, the cost to hire an Android app developer through us lands between $5,000 and $10,000. Where you sit in that range comes down to the two factors above, and we tell you which end you are at after we have looked at what you are building, not after you have committed to anything.
Or let us build it
Hiring a Developer, or Handing Over the Build
Hire a developer when everything around the code is already in place. You have a team, designers who know what the app should look like, a product manager who owns the roadmap, and a clear picture of what needs building. The only gap is execution, and a developer working to your direction closes it.
If you don't have those, hiring a developer only moves the problem. Someone still has to decide what gets built, in what order, and what it should look like. We do that work as well, whether that is MVP development to take an idea to a first working version, or CTO consulting when what you're missing is the technical leadership behind the decisions. The Services menu at the top of the page lists the rest. Have a look and pick whichever one matches where you actually are.
Want the app built for you instead? See Android app development. Need Android and iOS from one codebase? See cross platform app development.
Hiring Android Developers FAQs
Tell Us About the App
Tell us what the app has to do and how you want the work run. We will put forward an Android app developer who has shipped to Google Play before, or take the build on ourselves if you would rather not manage anyone.