Today, Android Development is never ending job scope for Android Developers as it comes with vast array of technology, languages and platform choices for the mobile development. The passionate android engineer is who, is comfortable with designing, testing, releasing and maintaining Android applications.
Today, Android phones are being sold like anything in the market and the sale of the Android phones are very larger in compare to Apple’s iphone so for developer as there are nth number of android applications are build by developers and getting paid for each applications.
So to learnAndroid Developer, the developer should love programming and have full fledged knowledge of OOPS with Android SDK platform with database connectivity as well.
Here are the notable points and skills to be successful professional android developers :
- JAVA
- The Android SDK
- Working with API’s
- Back end Skills
- Should be professional in Educational qualification like BCA, MCA, BTECH(CS/IT), MTECH, BSC(CS) or any recognized computer diploma or degree.
- JAVA : – To be a good professional android developer, you must have extensive knowledge of Java Programming language with basic syntax knowledge, programming structures and OOPS concept. It is a building block of Android development. The developer must be aware of syntax, loops, variables and object oriented concepts like static vs class methods must be familiar for him.
- SQL – The structured query language SQL organize the databases with in the Android applications which helps the developer to manage large volume of data to store. It provides the developer to integrate and exchange data from different sources with in Android applications.
- Android SDK – The knowledge of Android Source Development kit should be necessary for the professional android developer and the best thing is that it is free to download over internet as Android Studio, the official android IDE(integrated development environment).
- It includes the various android libraries, sample coding and hand coding tools which helps the professional developer to build the applications and to test/debug them.
- XML – XML (Extended Markup Language) is used to describe data for Android programmers.
The XML is very helpful for Android Programmers to design UI and to parse data feeds from the internet. And it will be done through IDE Android Studio, so in short, the knowledge of Android SDK must be necessary.
XML is a standard technique to encode the data for internet-based applications which allows information passed between devices that can be consistently understood.
The above are the basic and most essential requirement skills for the professional android developer, however to get the expertise the professional developer must have following more skills to be required :-
- Expertise in Android Platform
- Must have professional knowledge in Command Line Utilites.
- Must have compatible and comfortable with Google Play store.
- Should be a critical thinker.
- Should communicate with the technical team to recognize bugs and other issues in the working app.
- Should be able to develop, upgrade and re-engineer the existing app with new release.
- Must know the competitive apps in the play store and able to develop better than the existing app.
- Should be business expertise and have a skills to learn to market and increase downloads for the app by using accurate and easy techniques.
- Should have expertise in HTML 5 framework to develop Android applications like PhoneGap.
- Also the knowledge of c#.net framework as Xamarin to develop android application will be additional keyskill.
- The knowledge of Corona SDK which is primarily used for Games, themes and creating widgets for android applications.
- Must be a team player.
- Have ability to test and debug code.
- Must have understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- The knowledge of CSS3, Javascript, HTML 5, PHP would be considered as a plus for professional programmers.