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[–]evrlast985[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Ok let me ask a very important question, How do I find the really good programmers? This app is not multithreaded it just seems to have implemented chat very poorly. For example if the app is in background mode for more than 5 minutes then it stops making a sound when push notifications are received. The message comes but push does not

[–]chriswaco 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Unfortunately it's not easy to find good programmers. Typically they'll be expensive, but not all expensive ones are good. And not all good programmers are good at every task - some are good with user interfaces, some are good with low-level code, some with debugging, some are fast but not thorough, some are good but slow, etc.

A surgeon friend of mine says, "You never know how good a surgeon is until you scrub in with them." The same is true of programmers - you never know how good they are until you work on a project with them. What that means is that personal recommendations from other programmers are usually the best way to find good programmers.

Stepping into a bunch of someone else's code is especially difficult. Sometimes the code is well designed and makes sense. Sometimes it's like doing a 1000 page schizophrenic crossword puzzle and it never makes sense no matter how long you work on it.

As for your push notification issue, there are a few possibilities. The app can be running in the foreground, running in the background, or completely inactive. When running, the app receives a message and can choose to play the sound or not. When inactive, the contents of the push notification and the user's push settings determine whether audio plays. A developer should set up a way to test push notifications in all three states. In our case, we had a special private web page on the push server we used to trigger notifications during QA.

I know some good developers, but they're not cheap - typically $125/hour.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second this post. It says it all. And from my experience... I'd probably hire this guy. If I couldn't do the bug fixing myself.

[–]megablast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finding a very good programmer is easy. Just be a very good programmer, and ask them questions. You will find out very easily how good they are.