10 December 2009, 10:36 pm
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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.
10 December 2009, 8:22 pm
With our current promotion you can post your job listing at 75% discount using the promo code MERRYXMAS. There’s no limit on how many jobs you want to advertise, just reuse the code at checkout. You can use this direct link to post the job. The discount will be run until Jan 1, 2010
2 December 2009, 2:33 am
Two important changes in this release:
- Hire*A*Droid is now supporting job search in 15 countries (see list below)
- 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
- United States
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- India
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Spain
- United Kingdom
29 November 2009, 8:05 am
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
25 November 2009, 9:01 pm
We just got 2 Android job listings for very cool positions at Garmin International.
They “need Android developers for cool navigation and LBS applications“. See job listings on top of our Jobs page
25 November 2009, 9:10 am
On Nov 2nd, 2009 Hire*A*Droid app was made available on the Google Market. If you have Android-powered device please give it a try, we would love to get some feedback. To celebrate the opening and get the ball rolling we are running out first promotion: you now can post your job for just $1 a day until Dec 20, 2009. Simply add your job and use promo code helloHad when entering payment info
25 November 2009, 6:12 am
So what’s that flurry of activity today? 4 releases in the row – driving everybody bananas probably. Why not test thoroughly and do 1 release instead of 4? Well – that’s good in theory and rest assure – we do plenty of testing prior to release. However – the beauty of Android platfoerm is that once the build is out and everybody starts using it – when the unexpected bugs occur we’re getting these right away. And we are very serious about fixing these so you get the rapid updates until no bugs are generated.
Thank you for your patience! And happy browsing!
25 November 2009, 12:10 am
Hot on the heels of v.1.1.0 comes 1.1.1 with a bug fix. Please update
24 November 2009, 10:58 pm
Pre-loading Jobs
This release adds pre-caching of job summary. When user looks at the job details in the returned results list the final summary content is immediately requested on the background. Then, when user goes to see job summary – the cached content is served.
There’s no need to wait until job is pre-loaded, user can click to see job details at any time
It’s possible but not recommended to pre-cache more than 5 jobs since it will slow overall content capturing.
21 November 2009, 1:35 am
Why so many versions in just a week? Simple – we are hard at work to fix any reported and discovered bugs and optimize the performance.
Notable features in these releases:
In the search result view the summary will start loading on the background the instance you click on the heading to see the job details. This will come handy in the future support of job bookmarks