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Android Careers Are Optimistic

By Staff Reporter | Jan 02, 2014 11:04 AM EST

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs such as software developer will grow 30% by 2020. Although many of these jobs will require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science with deep programming experience, students who have those skills may use this certificate to position themselves as the "go-to" for mobile application development in their offices. Additionally, any student may use this program to begin working on their own applications as an entrepreneur or use the skills they acquire to solve other mobile programming issues.

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Average Salaries for IT Careers:

  • Software Developer: $90,530

  • Computer Programmer: $71,380

  • Computer Systems Analyst: $77,740

  • Web Developer: $75,660

Average salaries for Android mobile application developers and related positions:

  • Software Engineer salary: $90,000

  • Mobile Software Engineer salary: $94,000

  • Mobile Application Developer salary: $94,000

  • Java Application Developer salary: $96,000

  • Android Application Developer salary: $97,000

  • Senior Android Developer salary: $107,000

  • Lead Java Developer salary: $110,000

  • Senior Mobile Developer salary: $111,000

  • Javascript Jquery Developer salary: $124,000

Mobile Application Developer Skills & Responsibilities

Typical day-to-day duties and in-demand skill sets for mobile application developers include:

  • Mobile developers are fluent in object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Objective-C and C++.

  • Mobile application developers code, test, debug, monitor and document changes for mobile applications.

  • Mobile devs are skilled working inside the development environments of one or more the top mobile OSes.

  • Mobile app developers implement application programming interfaces (APIs) to support functionality.

  • Mobile application developers know the terminology, concepts, and best practices for coding apps.

  • Mobile application developers migrate and adapt existing web applications to the leading mobile platforms.

  • In-house mobile developers work closely with other departments to brainstorm and optimize deployments.

  • Mobile application developers recommend changes and enhancements to existing mobile applications.

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Are we living in a knowledge economy? Yes, with technical innovation and creativity in a knowledge economy this makes sense for new job creation as well new business development. To support, workers have to remain active in mobile, Android technologies, emerging IT, both the offline and online world by leveraging (video)conferences, seminars, meetings and in the virtual world through social media, websites, blogs forums, video and more.

IT challenges for will also be under pressure. Companies will have to innovate new ideas, expand areas in customer research such as social network sentiment analysis, globalizing applications, management, and global collaboration. Should innovation be a necessary skill for managers to execute? Should Innovation scale? Yes, they definitely should. It is great to see now changes in innovation for the blind. These changes should further be embraced in the 21st century. Showing that there is adaptation is positive sign for future.

Android and mobile devices along with their applications are constantly changing the landscape of how we live, conduct business and consume entertainment. Mobile developers should have knowledge and skills in coding Objective C, C++, C# or Java programming languages. Selecting the right OS such as Android is important when choosing the career. Developers are in one of the fastest and most demanding IT careers for the future.

 

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