How to hire an Android Developer
What the role does, the job description, the interview questions, and the 40-minute screening pack that tells you who can do the job before you book a single interview.
The role
What an Android Developer does
A Android Developer sits in the Engineering function. The sections below give you the job description, the interview questions and the screening pack for the role.
Screen before you interview
The Android Developer screening pack
Kotlin knowledge, OOP fundamentals, algorithms and version control cover the day-to-day of an Android role. Every applicant gets one link. You get one ranked report.
- 1
Describe the architecture of the last Android app you shipped and why you chose it.
- 2
How do you handle background work and battery constraints?
- 3
Walk us through debugging a crash that only happens on some devices.
- 4
How do you test an Android app before release?
- 5
What in the Android ecosystem changed your approach in the last two years?
Interview questions
Android Developer interview questions
For the candidates who pass the pack. Each comes with a sample answer on the full page.
Ask these after the screening pack, not instead of it. A candidate who has already scored on Android Development Using Kotlin, Object Oriented Programming, Algorithms for Software Engineering, GitHub has shown they can do the work, which frees the interview to do what a test cannot: find out how they think, how they explain themselves, and how they behave when something goes wrong.
- Ask every Android Developer candidate the same questions in the same order. Comparable answers are the whole point; a different conversation with each person tells you who you liked, not who was strongest.
- Look for a specific example with a result, not a description of how the candidate would approach it in principle. Follow up once with “what happened next?” and stop talking.
- Score each answer before moving to the next question, and write down what was said rather than the impression it left.
- At volume, record the first 4 of these instead of calling. Candidates answer on their own time, the answers are transcribed and scored, and you keep live interviews for the shortlist.
The pack takes a candidate about 40 minutes, so a Android Developer applicant arrives at this interview already measured on the parts you can measure without a meeting.
- 01
What drew you to Android development specifically?
- 02
Walk me through an Android app you shipped end to end.
- 03
How do you keep up with changes in the Android platform?
- 04
What kind of team and codebase do you work best in?
- 05
How do you decide between an MVVM, MVI, or MVP architecture for an app?
- 06
How do you handle background work given modern Android execution limits?
- 07
How do you approach memory leaks and performance profiling on Android?
- 08
What is your experience with Jetpack Compose versus the older View system?
Frequently asked questions
Send every applicant one link that carries 4 skills tests (Android Development Using Kotlin, Object Oriented Programming, Algorithms for Software Engineering, GitHub), a personality inventory and 5 one-way video questions. springhire scores everything automatically and ranks the candidates, so you interview the top few. The free plan covers 10 candidates a month.
About 40 minutes for the tests, plus 10 to 15 minutes for the video questions. Candidates complete it on their own time, on any device.
A short brief, key responsibilities, must-have and nice-to-have skills and the requirements. The JD generator writes one for this role in a minute.
Questions that ask for a specific past example and a walkthrough of how the candidate thinks. This page lists 8 with sample answers, and the full bank has more.
Yes. The free plan includes every screening tool with 10 candidate credits a month and no card. Paid plans start at $39 a month.
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