How Much Does It Cost To Hire an Android App Developer In India?
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Published: 2020-12-01 11:21:39

The Android application’s market is growing rapidly day by day. Be it ordering a cab or food, tracking your health, playing games, or communicating with your friends through social media. Moreover, Android applications are growing since ages. Especially, in India, Android applications are having a big impact on the people, especially the youth. More importantly, after announcing the recent project of “Atmanirbhar Bharat”  i.e. Self-dependent India by our honorable prime minister Narendra Modi, the app development is growing in India.

There are a large number of application and games developers in India, who either work as a freelancer or full-time developer who work under software development countries. Most of these companies are partners with IT giants of Europe and the USA.

When it comes to development, there are different platforms around. Platforms like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)"><b> android </b></a>, IOS, and Windows. Moreover, there is a huge market in India for Android application development as 67% of Indian software developers prefer Android. Followed by IOS and then Windows.

So the big question that arises here is what does it <a href="https://www.aalpha.net/articles/cost-to-hire-an-android-app-developer/"><b> cost to hire an android app Developer </b></a>? When it comes to India, it has three hotspots of application development. They are Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and New Delhi. The hiring cost depends on the location, experience, and depth of knowledge. Out of that 67% of Android application developers in India, 46% are two to five years experienced and the rest are zero to two years. But if we exclude these parameters and just focus on the application developers then the following points will explain the cost and work.

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1. User Login or Logout:
This is a feature used to enroll a client into the application by the means of email or phone number and an encrypted password. The basic is to create an account to use the full-fledged application. These applications usually take around 20 hours to be built and will cost approximately $30 to $50 US dollars per hour based on expertise.

2. Navigation: 
This application consists of various screens or user interfaces which has to be calibrated under the main menu. It should also feature a backend which should take us back to the main menu from any screen. The time taken to develop these types of applications is around 10 to 15 hours. It will cost the developer approx. $25 to $50 US dollars per hour.

3. Media Content 
Most of the applications require media content in them. Content like photographs, blogs, short videos, and backend links which will take us to other platforms. Developers can design the application using Java and C++. Both these platforms take around 20 to 25 hours and will cost you from 50 US dollars per hour.

4. Geolocation:
An important aspect of any application whose basic service is to provide taxi, food and eatery, voyage, and dating. This app will require calibration with the smartphone’s GPS sensors and discretionary client consents. Based on the precision of location the app development costs around $25 to $50 US dollars. This will take around 50 hours to get ready.

5. Messaging or Chat: 
This is a common embedded service in most of the applications these days. But it is also one of the difficult tasks to develop. The variations include chatting with a real person or a bot, encrypted or unencrypted, and many more. Usually, these apps take 80+ hours to be built. It will cost around $25 to $50 US dollars per hour.

6. Advertisements:
In any sort of application, advertisements contribute heavily to revenue generations. The ads can be calibrated with any application with all sorts of customizations. It can be either the entire page, top, bottom, the right, or left side of the user interface. Moreover, the popular service providers like Google AdMob, InMobi, Flurry, and Tapjoy can be easily used to get the ads. To develop these types of applications, it usually takes $20 to $50 hours. It will cost you around $50 to $80 US dollars per hour.

7. Offline Apps:
An application that doesn’t require an internet connection is an offline app. It may be a game or any service providing platform, all it has to do is to run offline without any internet support. To build these apps, it takes around 40 hours. It will cost around $25 to $50 US dollars per hour.

8. In-app purchases:
Sometimes, an application requires to run different services through payments made by users inside the applications. This is called as in-app purchases. It may be disabling ads, buying premium versions of an app, or buying fictional money for games, all these qualify under in-app purchases. Moreover, it usually takes around 30 hours to integrate in-app purchases into an application. It will be costing around $750 to $1500 US dollars for the entire package.

Finally, these above points were some of the categories of the applications, the time it takes to be built and the cost you have to pay to hire the developers.