Ravi Tamada is a Technical Lead and entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience building mobile and web products, leading teams, and running one of the world's top Android blogs, AndroidHive, which attracts over 2M monthly readers. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning Android/iOS apps, Laravel/RoR backends, Firebase, AWS, and React Native—with product leadership and digital marketing expertise. Ravi has delivered diverse solutions from AI-driven B2B mobile ad exchanges and inventory-driven food delivery apps to banking apps with biometric and AR innovations. As founder of Droid5 Informatics and AndroidHive, he blends consultancy, content, and product development to bridge technology and business needs. His open-source work includes practical Android components like a refined barcode reader that improved UX with overlays, pause/resume handling, and scan event listeners. Based in Hyderabad, he thrives on autonomous roles where technical depth meets strategic impact.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Architect and Expert developer, Mobile Development, Architect and Expert developer, Mobile Development at Android/iOS Development
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, A, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, A at Raghu Engineering College
Android barcode reader using google vision library
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ravi primarily focused on developing the Android application for barcode reading. They moved the barcode reader functionality to a fragment, added an animated overlay, and fixed a bug related to the camera's fullscreen display. They also implemented listeners for scanning events and incorporated a beep sound for successful scans. Further commits included added pause/resume functionality and added dimension/color configurations.
Android choosing image from camera or gallery with Crop functionality
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 16 days
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