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How to Screen Mobile Developer Resumes
Mobile resumes claim native and cross-platform fluency, but the real evidence is in the app stores. A candidate can list Swift, Kotlin, React Native, and Flutter and still have never shipped past TestFlight. The screen that matters finds the apps that actually launched — with installs, ratings, and a release history — and the platform depth behind the framework names.
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Core qualifications
- Shipped apps live in the App Store or Play Store, ideally with installs, ratings, or a public link
- Platform fit: native (Swift, Kotlin) or cross-platform (React Native, Flutter) matched to your stack
- Depth in platform specifics — lifecycle, navigation, permissions, offline state — not just the UI
- Performance and device awareness: startup time, memory, battery, or behavior across screen sizes
- Release-cycle experience — store submission, review, versioning, and shipping updates to real users
Red flags
What to watch for in mobile developer resumes
- Every mobile framework listed with no app that actually shipped to a store
- "Published apps" with no link, install count, rating, or release history to back it
- Web or backend experience repackaged as mobile with no native or cross-platform depth
- No mention of store submission, device testing, or performance on real hardware
- A single tutorial-grade app presented as production mobile experience
Worth verifying
Claims that are easy to write, hard to back up
- "Published apps to the App Store" — which ones, with how many installs and what rating?
- "Built with React Native / Flutter" — shipped to both platforms, or one with the other untested?
- "Optimized app performance" — startup, memory, or battery, measured on what devices?
- "Native iOS / Android" — handled lifecycle and permissions, or used a framework that hid them?
The fast way
Screen mobile developers faster
For mobile reqs, the store listing is the screen — a shipped app with installs beats any framework list. Match native versus cross-platform to your actual stack before ranking, since the two are different hires with different depth. Read for release-cycle experience and device-level performance awareness, and verify that "published" means a live, updated app and not a one-off demo that never saw real users.
Resume Autopsy ranks your whole mobile developer applicant pool against the job description in minutes — a 0–100 fit score and a MATCH / PARTIAL / MISS checklist with evidence quotes for every candidate, so you know who to interview first and can defend the call.
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