Today, the mobile app market has grown rapidly as one of the largest business promotion platforms with a huge universal audience that is rapidly increasing every year. As the statistics reveal, the Android and iPhone market together dominate 98 percent of the smartphone market, with Android at the top sharing 84 percent of the market share.

Due to the huge universal presence of the Android app development market, it calls for a potentially successful business marketing platform for every company to strive for. With a large customer base, the Android app market is also a highly competitive business market. So, in order to gain a recognized position in the Android application market, you have to face the challenge of choosing the most appropriate Android application service provider.

To help you with the biggest challenge, here are 5 things to know before hiring an Android app developer:

1. Technical expertise and specific knowledge of the requirements:

For a well-customized Android app, expert knowledge of coding is required, therefore the developer you hire should have deep technical experience with the same. Also, the company you choose is expected to have a good specific knowledge of the requirements. This can be judged by questions like: Have you worked on these types of requirements before? OR Can you walk me through a flowchart of meeting my requirements with the app? The answers to these questions will help you gain insight into the Android app developer’s expertise in the relevant domain.

2. Experience and Portfolio:

Every successful Android app development company or app developer will have an expressive portfolio along with some case studies from previously served clients. You can review this portfolio and relevant case studies that allow you to judge the company’s technical expertise. Along with this, you need to know the company’s experience, which refers to the number of years the company has been in business. With this, you can also ask the service provider for past customer references from where you can get valuable feedback on the solutions provided by the service provider.

3. Features and functionality of your application:

One of the most important points you need to work on is the features and functionality of your application. You should think well about the possibilities your app could boast and discuss the features and functionality parameters of the app with your preferred Android app service provider. This is an important part and will help the Android app developer you hire to make the app’s functionality more business-oriented and meet your expectations.

4. Budget and planned schedule:

Another decisive or decisive criteria is the “budget” in which you plan to invest for the development of the application. Before you decide on your target budget and schedule for your Android app, you should study the various parameters that determine the cost of Android app development along with the time requirements for different customizations. Also, according to that, you can choose from the preferred service provider options to meet your budget and schedule goals.

5. Revenue Generation Model and Ongoing Application Support:

Before choosing a developer, you should discuss your app’s revenue generation strategy with them. Whether the app would have a paid download option or whether it would earn profit from in-app purchase and pop-up ads, etc. Based on your requirements, the service provider could add powerful back-end technical support for the revenue generation model. With this, your Android app can be smartly targeted to get great ROI (return on investment) and lead with high business conversion rate.

Also, with the increased complexity of custom Android app development services, you may need ongoing app support to better manage your app. Therefore, you need to know if the Android app development service provider you choose provides cost-effective ongoing support.