Hire Android Developers in India

Because a single published number would mislead most of the people reading it. Six things set the real rate: seniority, how many engineers you take, contract duration, payment terms, whether the engagement is remote or onsite, and whether you are contracting from India or overseas. A senior engineer on a two-year rupee contract with advance billing and a junior engineer on a three-month hourly engagement billed net-30 in dollars are genuinely different prices. Publishing one figure would mean overquoting most Indian clients or underquoting most overseas ones.

What we will commit to is speed: tell us the seniority, the headcount and roughly how long, and you get a firm written quote with the rate, minimum term and notice period within one working day. No discovery call required first, and no obligation after.

Probably not for long. Google raises the required target API level every year. In 2026, new apps and app updates had to target Android 16 (API level 36) by 31 August, with extensions available to 1 November. Apps that fall too far behind stop being offered to new users on newer Android versions, and you cannot ship an update until the app is upgraded. Each upgrade usually means changes to permissions, background work and notifications, tested on real devices.

There is a second change coming. From 30 September 2026, Google began requiring a verified developer identity for apps installed on certified Android devices in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, including apps installed outside Google Play, and it plans to extend this worldwide in 2027. If your app is distributed directly to your own staff rather than through Play, plan for this now. Our engineers handle both as routine maintenance.

Almost never. Kotlin and Java run side by side in the same app, so the usual path is to write every new file in Kotlin from tomorrow and leave working Java code alone until it needs changing. New screens can be built in Jetpack Compose, and old XML screens converted one at a time. Your users see no disruption, and the codebase gets easier to hire for every month.

A full rewrite is occasionally right, usually when the architecture itself is the problem rather than the language, and we will tell you plainly if yours is one of those. Krishna Bhavan's field sales app is in Java, and we still maintain Java apps. There is a full comparison of the four options further up this page.

Yes. Microsoft ended support for Xamarin on 1 May 2024, and Xamarin's last supported Android target is API level 34. Google Play now requires a higher target for every new release, so a Xamarin app can keep running for existing users but cannot ship another update until it is migrated. For Presidio we placed native Android engineers in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose inside its own project team to move a mobile app off Xamarin, and that team was recognised in July 2024 for delivering a critical mobile app migration on schedule.

We migrate screen by screen against the existing backend, so your APIs and data stay as they are, and we test each release on real devices before it goes out. If you would rather stay with Microsoft's tooling, .NET MAUI is the official successor to Xamarin.Forms, and we will tell you honestly which route suits your app.

Go native when the app is built around the device or around Android itself: deep camera, Bluetooth or background work, Android-only hardware such as rugged scanners and handheld terminals, apps for a field team whose phones you control, or when you need the newest Android features on day one. Go cross-platform when you need the same app on iPhone and Android from one team. We staff all three, so there is nothing for us to gain by steering you. Our React Native and Flutter pages cover the cross-platform side in detail.

Yes. Most Android work is picking up a project rather than starting one. We start with a short paid discovery: an engineer gets the app building in a current version of Android Studio, maps the modules, checks every library for abandoned or outdated versions, checks the target API level and any Play Console policy warnings, and writes up what exists and what the risks are before you commit to anything longer. If the app is in worse shape than you were told, you will hear it from us at that point rather than three months in. Futuristic Schools has never used another developer, and we maintain its apps today.

You do, all three. IP assignment is written into the contract before work starts, alongside a mutual NDA, and it covers source code, designs and documentation. We do not reuse your code on other projects.

The Play Console account and the upload key are the parts buyers miss until it hurts. Your Google Play developer account should be registered in your company's name, with us added as users, and the upload key kept in your own secure storage. With Play App Signing, a lost upload key can be reset, but only through the Play Console account that owns the app. If a vendor or a former developer holds either, changing vendor can mean republishing the app and losing your reviews and install base. Gainr and Futuristic Schools both publish under their own accounts.

Both are covered in the contract. You get a five-day free trial: five business days with the engineer at no cost, on your real tickets, and if it is not a fit you owe nothing. After that, you get a free replacement within five business days at any point in the engagement, with no need to justify the decision.

Leaving is the bigger risk on an Android app, because the engineer carries your build setup, signing process and release history in their head. Our attrition is under 5% against an Indian IT average of 20 to 25%, so it rarely happens. If it does, the replacement comes from our own bench or our 30+ partner companies within the same five business days. Ask every vendor on your shortlist for their attrition number, in writing.

Our screening runs in five stages: a stack-specific CV screen covering Kotlin or Java, Compose or XML views, which API levels they have upgraded through and which apps they have shipped to Google Play; a scored technical assessment on Xobin, which a candidate has to pass before going further and whose report you get alongside the CV; a live coding round on a real Kotlin or Java problem; a technical interview with a senior engineer covering lifecycle, coroutines and threading, memory leaks and frozen screens, Gradle and Play releases; and a communication check plus reference verification. We do not use take-home assignments because they can be outsourced.

Three matched profiles reach you within 48 hours, with the assessment reports attached. Once you sign off, the engineer is in your standup within two working days. You can interview as many engineers as you like at no cost, and we will put the engineer on the call without a salesperson present.

Both. For Google Play, our engineers prepare signed release builds, push them through the internal, closed and open testing tracks, write the store listing, complete the Data safety form, respond to policy reviews and manage staged rollout to production. For apps your own staff use, the app can be distributed directly to them instead of through a public listing. That is how Krishna Bhavan's sales team receives its app. We will tell you upfront when a feature is likely to attract a Play policy review, which is usually background location, SMS or call log access, or account deletion.

Both. Within India, we have placed Android, iOS and React Native engineers onsite at Presidio's delivery centres in Coimbatore, Chennai and Bengaluru, working inside the client's own project teams. Onsite carries allowance costs, so it is quoted separately and needs a longer commitment to make sense for both sides.

For clients outside India we work remotely from Coimbatore (IST, UTC+5:30). UK clients get four to five hours of natural overlap. For US clients our engineers shift their hours to give at least four hours of overlap, enough for a daily standup and working sessions. The overlap window is agreed in writing before the engagement starts.

We look in-house first, across our own 80+ engineers in Coimbatore. If the match is not on our payroll, we have standing partnerships with more than 30 established Indian IT services companies and access to their benches. Either way you deal only with us: we source, screen and assess the engineer, we hold the contract, you get one invoice, and the 5-day trial, the 5-business-day replacement, the IP assignment and the NDA apply identically.

Teams work the same way. Krishna Bhavan's app was built by a five-person team: an Android developer, a backend developer, a designer, a QA analyst and a project manager. Per-head cost is meaningfully lower than hiring the same roles one at a time.