About the Author

Prajyot Mainkar is the Founder-Director of Androcid, a mobile app development company based out of Goa, India. He is an android developer with experience of working on Android development since Android's Froyo edition. Prajyot is also the chairman of Goa Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s IT committee. Androcid was one of the winners of Goa CM's Startup Award for the year 2017.

Prajyot is one of the few Intel Innovators in the country and has been a speaker at more than 300 Android developer conferences across the globe, some of the prominent ones being Droidcon Greece and Android Developer Days In Turkey.

Prajyot has always been passionate about teaching and was instrumental in building the Android ecosystem in India during the early stage of Android penetration in India by forming one of the premier Android communities in India--The Goa Android User's Group under the Google Developer community. He is passionate about teaching Android development and has been one of the drivers of introducing Android as curriculum at the Goa University, which became one of the earliest Indian-based universities to have the curriculum for Android development.

Recently, Prajyot was awarded as the young entrepreneur of the year by Business Goa and one of the leading portals in India marked him as one of the top techies in India. He has been a mentor to more than 100 companies, and he is part of India’s one of the leading start up incubation centers--Startup Village--as a tech mentor of mobile development.

Popularly known as Android Man of Goa, Prajyot is a professional technology blogger and a columnist on several portals and print media specially focusing on Smartphone trends.

He considers exploring new places as one of his passions and loves watching tennis. He loves to play chess and tennis.

Specialties: Android Developer, Android Consultancy, Android Programming,
Mobile Startups, and Mobile app Development.