Hire*A*Droid » General http://hireadroid.com World Jobs On Android Phone Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:35:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 HireADroid – releases 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 http://hireadroid.com/2010/08/hireadroid-releases-2-3-2-and-2-3-3/ http://hireadroid.com/2010/08/hireadroid-releases-2-3-2-and-2-3-3/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:10:53 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=183 Release 2.3.2 adds ability to open job description in the stand-alone browser. The option is accessible from the “Summary” view by clicking “Menu” button (link) on your device and selecting “Open in browser” item. This will take you out of HireADroid app and load job listing into mobile browser. If you want to bookmark the job or you don’t like how job is rendered inside the “Summary” view you may want to use this option
Save In Browser

Save In Browser


Release 2.3.3 fixes minor NullPointerException bug

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2010/08/hireadroid-releases-2-3-2-and-2-3-3/feed/ 0 HireADroid – release 2.3.1 http://hireadroid.com/2010/08/hireadroid-release-2-3-1/ http://hireadroid.com/2010/08/hireadroid-release-2-3-1/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:36:41 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=181 The 2.3.1 release finally puts FC bug to rest. If you are Android developer you may be interested on how this bug appear and how it was solved.
Back in release 2.1.9 we added ability for Froyo (Android 2.2) users to save HireADroid app to the SD card. One of the steps involved was setting our development environment to be compatible with Froyo. Unfortunately it also meant that in the next release we inadvertently used feature that wasn’t compatible with Android 1.5. After the release some of our users with older phones, running A1.5 started experience the FC attempting to display search results which was cased by java.lang.VerifyError. This was hard to track but fortunately easy to fix. So release 2.3.1 gets rid of this FC for good. It’s been in production since last Sunday and not a single FC was reported.

The 2.3.1 release finally fixes correct titles for “Send To” option which was renamed to “Share By”.

We also added ability to sort search results by date (default) or relevance. This option is available as a menu item from the search results screen

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2010/08/hireadroid-release-2-3-1/feed/ 0 Release 2.2.8 fixex nagging FC bug http://hireadroid.com/2010/07/release-2-2-8-fixex-nagging-fc-bug/ http://hireadroid.com/2010/07/release-2-2-8-fixex-nagging-fc-bug/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:26:07 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=179 Sorry for all the users who had to endure multiple updates last week. It was due to tracking down and fixing very elusive bug that was affecting small number of users. We are happy to report that in 2.2.8 this issue is no longer appears and we had verify with several users that indeed the problem was fixed. Thanks again for your patience!

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2010/07/release-2-2-8-fixex-nagging-fc-bug/feed/ 0 Hire*A*Droid – release 2.1.6 http://hireadroid.com/2010/06/hireadroid-release-2-1-6/ http://hireadroid.com/2010/06/hireadroid-release-2-1-6/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:49 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=175 Hire*A*Droid is up to release 2.1.6. This is a maintenance release fixing several bugs related to the default country

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2010/06/hireadroid-release-2-1-6/feed/ 0 Hire*A*Droid featured on jobsearch.about.com http://hireadroid.com/2010/05/hireadroid-featured-on-jobsearch-about-com/ http://hireadroid.com/2010/05/hireadroid-featured-on-jobsearch-about-com/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 21:00:00 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=171 Today Hire*A*Droid was featured on Alison Doyel’s popular blog at jobsearch.about.com. With version 2 generating very positive feedback we are very excited about apps future!

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2010/05/hireadroid-featured-on-jobsearch-about-com/feed/ 0 A Top Job Search makes top of the list http://hireadroid.com/2010/01/a-top-job-search-makes-top-of-the-list/ http://hireadroid.com/2010/01/a-top-job-search-makes-top-of-the-list/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:09:11 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=141 A Top Job Search (a.k.a. Hire*A*Droid) according to http://cyrket.com tops the list of most downloaded “job search” applications on Android Market

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2010/01/a-top-job-search-makes-top-of-the-list/feed/ 0 Hire*A*Droid v. 1.3.2 UI changes http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-3-2-ui-changes/ http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-3-2-ui-changes/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:08:56 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=127 Hire*A*Droid v. 1.3.2 add some bug fixes, optimization and slight UI changes into search results. Lighter shade of grey is used to visually separate job description from the job header

Hire*A*Droid - search results

Hire*A*Droid - search results

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-3-2-ui-changes/feed/ 0 Hire*A*Droid – v.1.3.0 adds widget http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-3-0-adds-widget/ http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-3-0-adds-widget/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:36:11 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=121 q8s9W0CMLnbSwuPj7hEZy4hD9uDndyA0

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We are very excited to announce new feature of our beloved job searching app: it now adds Home screen widget. This widget can be placed anywhere on the desktop of your device by doing a “long click”. Basically – make sure that you are not running any apps (including Hire*A*Droid) and then tap and hold your finger anywhere on your desktop where you have enough space. This will bring a list of choices – select “Widgets” and then select Hire*A*Droid from the list.

Once placed and properly set – widget will display the top entry from the search the widget is set up with. The search is re-run every hour however between runs it stays dormant and does not consume any battery power. Brand new entries are marked with a star icon which goes away after next refresh or when user clicks on the job description to view a list of all current results.

You can have as many widgets as your screen will accommodate

The feature is very new so if you have any problem with it please report it to us.

]]> http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-3-0-adds-widget/feed/ 0 Hire*A*Droid – v.1.2.0 we are going worldwide! http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-2-0-we-are-going-worldwide/ http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-2-0-we-are-going-worldwide/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:33:27 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=106 Two important changes in this release:

  1. Hire*A*Droid is now supporting job search in 15 countries (see list below)
  2. Code is adjusted to support 1.5 version of Android which hopefully means that we get more users with devices running this older version of OS. This change is not impacting apps performance or capabilities in any way

List of supported countries:

Hire*A*Droid - Countries

Hire*A*Droid - Countries

  1. United States
  2. Australia
  3. Belgium
  4. Brazil
  5. Canada
  6. France
  7. Germany
  8. India
  9. Ireland
  10. Italy
  11. Japan
  12. Mexico
  13. Netherlands
  14. Spain
  15. United Kingdom
]]> http://hireadroid.com/2009/12/hireadroid-v-1-2-0-we-are-going-worldwide/feed/ 0 Hire*A*Droid v.1.1.8 – UK jobs http://hireadroid.com/2009/11/hireadroid-v-1-1-8-uk-jobs/ http://hireadroid.com/2009/11/hireadroid-v-1-1-8-uk-jobs/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:05:46 +0000 droid http://hireadroid.com/?p=100 Release 1.1.8 of Hire*A*Droid brings United Kingdom jobs with more countries to follow. Country selection is “sticky”, please don’t forget to change it depending on in which country you are job-hunting. Searching for jobs in multiple countries simultaneously is not supported.

To pick a country click on the flag icon at the bottom of the screen

Hire*A*Droid - select a country

Hire*A*Droid - select a country

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