How to Make a LaTeX Resume on Your Phone

By Laxmi SolutionsUpdated October 13, 20262 min read

A LaTeX resume looks sharp, keeps a consistent layout and produces a PDF that applicant tracking systems can read. You don't need a laptop to make one: this guide builds a one-page resume on an Android phone, from a template or from a short source file you can paste in.

The quick way: start from a template

In Lemma, tap +, choose a template, and filter by Resume. The classic resume template is free, and Lemma Pro adds more resume and CV layouts plus a cover letter. Every template compiles on the first try. Replace the sample text with yours, compile, and share the PDF.

A one-page resume from scratch

If you prefer to understand every line, start a blank document and paste this. It uses only standard packages, so it compiles anywhere.

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.8cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

\hypersetup{pdftitle={Alex Rivera - Resume}, pdfauthor={Alex Rivera}}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=1.2em, itemsep=1pt, topsep=2pt}
\titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{}{0pt}{}[\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{10pt}{6pt}

\begin{document}

{\LARGE\bfseries Alex Rivera}\\[2pt]
Pune, India \textbullet{}
\href{mailto:alex@example.com}{alex@example.com} \textbullet{}
\href{https://github.com/example}{github.com/example}

\section{Experience}
\textbf{Software Engineer}, Example Corp \hfill 2023 -- present
\begin{itemize}
  \item Cut report generation time from 40\,s to 3\,s by caching queries.
  \item Moved 12 services to a shared CI pipeline.
\end{itemize}

\section{Education}
\textbf{B.Tech, Computer Science}, Example University \hfill 2019 -- 2023

\section{Skills}
Kotlin, Python, SQL, Git, \LaTeX

\end{document}

How the code works

geometry sets the margins. Narrower margins fit more on one page; 1.5 cm to 2 cm still looks balanced.
titlesec restyles each \section as a bold heading with a rule under it, and removes the numbers.
enumitem tightens the bullet lists, which a resume needs more than a paper does.
hyperref makes the email and links clickable, and \hypersetup writes your name into the PDF's properties.
\hfill pushes the dates to the right margin on the same line.

Change the font

Lemma compiles with XeLaTeX, so any installed font works through fontspec. Add a font file (.ttf or .otf) in Settings → Fonts, then add these lines to the preamble:

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Source Sans 3}

Use the font's family name, as shown in Settings → Fonts after you add it, not its file name.

Make it ATS-friendly

Keep one column. Multi-column layouts and text inside tables can be read out of order by applicant tracking systems.
Use standard section names: Experience, Education, Skills, Projects.
Write dates and job titles as plain text, not icons or images.
After compiling, select text in the PDF or search it; if you can select it, a parser can read it.

Keep versions for each application

Connect the project to a Git repository and commit before tailoring it to each role, so you can always return to the version you sent. Share the PDF straight from Lemma to email or a job site.

New to LaTeX on Android? Start with how to write and compile LaTeX on Android.