Finding Android contract work?

Posted by Reuben Scratton on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Reuben Scratton
Published on 2011-02-21T12:21:20Z Indexed on 2011/02/21 15:33 UTC
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Hi all,

Hope I'm in the right place... apologies in advance if not.

How and where do people find contract work? Specifically Android work...

Two years ago, following 15+ years in Win32 and SymbianOS, I decided to intensively focus on Android. I took the best part of 2009 off work to learn the new platform thoroughly, and that seems to have been a good strategic decision... Android is everywhere now.

But it seems strangely hard to find Android development work. I have this nagging feeling that there must be some website, some secret society or labour exchange, that has somehow eluded me... :-\

What's going on? If you're a contractor, how did you find your current work? Because looking at page after page of cut'n'paste ads on Jobserve is destroying my will to live. As is the "0 results" response when I search for "Android" on careers.stackoverflow.com.

Any help / insight sincerely appreciated.

-- Reuben

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