App development companies handle several clients and application users every year. Every time, companies offer customers the applications with valuable features. But, there are few cases where companies receive a complaint about the performance of application either from their clients or users.
Developing an up to mark mobile application requires tremendous efforts and resources. Companies invest a lot of money on different softwares as well as tools for developing application. And if the app fails to prove it’s 100% result, then it would be a very embarrassing thing for the companies.
To achieve standard benchmark in app development industry, companies need to hire mobile developers who are creative and expert in mobile application development. But, the company should consider several factors before hiring mobile app developers. The factors described below will help the company to hire right mobile app developer.
Technical Skills
It is important for companies to hire app developers who are technically capable of completing the desired project. The company should inspect technical knowledge of developers by considering the project requirements. For example, complex app development project might require team Android developers, iOS developers, UI/UX designer, backend (database) developer.
The company should aware of fact that one developer doesn’t have the ability to handle all these technical skills. Therefore, the company needs to hire multiple developers with various disciplines. Hiring a team is always beneficial as all developers will work under one roof and able to communicate effectively.
Portfolio
A strong portfolio reflects the intelligence of developers. It also elaborates many things about application developer such as experience, an area of interest. Companies can download and use candidate’s app to check his/her knowledge level. The user-friendly and easy app is an indication of the right application developer.
By looking the previously worked projects help to understand the potential of the candidate about the work. This will help the company to determine the developer’s specialization related to the project.
References
Validating the developers who have developed the app or they affirm to have worked on different apps is very important. Companies can contact the previous or current clients to get developer’s feedback of work. Company can ask some good question-
Did candidate a good process of work?
How was the work quality?
Was he/she complete the project within given time-span?
How well did candidate resolve the issues?
This will help the company to understand the roles and responsibilities of a developer in different activities. By knowing this, the company can determine effectiveness and reliability of the developers.
Source Code Ownership
The one who pays for development is generally the owner of the application. Most of the times many developers working for company claim that they are the owner of the application. So to avoid this situation, a company should sign a legal policy contract from developers about the ownership of the application.
Developers With Application Testing Knowledge
The application should get tested before deploying it in App Store/Play Store. Testing guarantees the glitch-free performance of an application. Most of the times, companies need to hire testing team separately to perform different kinds of testing on the application. Hence, by hiring developers who can perform app testing, the company can save extra money. Company should also make sure that he/she can handle different testing tools efficiently.
Development Process
Application development lifecycle involves different phases viz requirement analysis, design, coding, testing and deployment. So companies first need to make sure where the candidate best suited among these phases. For example, some candidates are good at User Interface (UI) design.
While evaluating the developers, company can ask them following important questions-
How to handle scope changes?
How to handle Quality Assurance (QA)?
How is communication handled?
Are there regular project meetings?
Upgrades And Maintenance Plan
All the major application platforms update their versions regularly. Unfortunately, these updates may cause crashing of a mobile application. For example, when app developed with an older version of SDK might not compatible with the newer version.
Hence, the company should ask developers how they are going to handle such version compatibility issues. The company should hire mobile developers who have knowledge of different troubleshooting techniques. To keep application evolving, developers should be able to handle upgrades efficiently.
Pricing
The most important part of app development is to discuss the cost for app development. If businesses don’t want to pay more for the application, then it is better to have a fair idea regarding the fees for development that is charged by the app development company.
Ritesh Patil is the co-founder of Mobisoft Infotech that helps startups and enterprises in mobile technology. He loves technology, especially mobile technology. He’s an avid blogger and writes on mobile application. He works in a leading android development company with skilled android app developers that has developed innovative mobile applications across various fields such as Finance, Insurance, Health, Entertainment, Productivity, Social Causes, Education and many more and has bagged numerous awards for the same.