[algorithms]

My question to other android developers and especially people in hiring positions:

Do you think such a certificate would be a deciding factor in the hiring process? (Especially for entry-level positions, but also generally)

[on_and_off]

what matters is what you can do, how much you understand the platform tools (it is not required of a junior developer to write renderscript kernels, but he/she at least need to know basic concepts such as view recycling or view holders) and whether you are able to write maintainable & extensible code. This course probably help for at least some of these points.

I just reviewed a test made by somebody that would like to join our team. There were some very weird use of view in there, for example holding references to dozens of view objects in order to display them in a grid instead of caching the bitmap themselves, among other things. That was a big no-no. A junior developer is going to make mistakes (and she already has a couple of years of experience) but if each of his/her code reviews end up with a -2, both parties are going to lose their time.

[narag]

To be honest, I believe that taking the course could be a deciding factor, more than the certificate. What I'll be looking for (hopefully soon) is someone that can navigate the environment and familiar with APIs. I'm considering taking the course myself anyway.