wachiranduati / AAD-Test-Guide

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AAD Test Guide

This is my very own personal study guide for the Associate Android Developer certification.

The repo will focus on the following topics:

• Android core
• User interface
• Data management
• Debugging
• Testing

1. Android Core

This will focus on the following sections:

• Understand the architecture of the Android system
• [] Be able to describe the basic building blocks of an Android app - [x] Activities - [x] Services - [x] foreground services - [x] background services - [] bound services - [x] Binder - [] Messenger - [] AIDL - [] BroadCast Receivers - [] Content Providers
• Know how to build and run an Android app
• Display simple messages in a popup using a Toast or a Snackbar
• Be able to display a message outside your app's UI using Notifications
• Understand how to localize an app
• Be able to schedule a background task using WorkManager

2. User Interface

Focusing on:

• Understand the Android activity lifecycle
• Be able to create an Activity that displays a Layout
• Be able to construct a UI with ConstraintLayout
• Understand how to create a custom View class and add it to a Layout
• Know how to implement a custom app theme
• Be able to add accessibility hooks to a custom View
• Know how to apply content descriptions to views for accessibility
• Understand how to display items in a RecyclerView
• Be able to bind local data to a RecyclerView list using the Paging library
• Know how to implement menu-based navigation
  • Option Menu
  • Contextual Menu
  • Popup Menu
• Understand how to implement drawer navigation

3. Data Management

Focusing on:

• Understand how to define data using Room entities
• Be able to access Room database with data access object (DAO)
• Know how to observe and respond to changing data using LiveData
• Understand how to use a Repository to mediate data operations
• Be able to read and parse raw resources or asset files
• Be able to create persistent Preference data from user input
  • shared preferences
  • data store
    • Preferences DataStore
    • Proto DataStore
• Understand how to change the behavior of the app based on user preferences

4. Debugging

Focusing on:

• Understand the basic debugging techniques available in Android Studio
• Know how to debug and fix issues with an app's functional behavior and usability
• Be able to use the System Log to output debug information
• Understand how to use breakpoints in Android Studio
• Know how to inspect variables using Android Studio

5. Testing

Focusing on:

• Thoroughly understand the fundamentals of testing
• Be able to write useful local JUnit tests
• Understand the Espresso UI test framework
• Know how to write useful automated Android tests