Android-Developer-Certification-exam-resources

Repository to share resources which we need to study

Certification site: https://developers.google.com/training/certification/associate-android-developer/

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How to collaborate? Just add under every line a resource you want to share i.e.:

• 1 An important thing to study

  • My resource with a little explanation and web page

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General resources

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Some resources for the updated certification are listed at Android Developent Fundamentals

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• Android Developer Fundamentals
  • Concept reference: Android Developer Fundamentals Course—Concepts
  • Practical workbook: Android Developer Fundamentals Course—Practicals
• Advanced Android Development
  • Concept reference: Advanced Android Development—Concepts
  • Practical workbook: Advanced Android Development—Practicals
• More exam resources
  • An useful repository with more resources for the exam by Amejia481
  • Quick and a little bit outdated guide to implement Material Design elements from MaterialDoc
  • Old but useful guide to see how the exam is from Medium

1) Testing and debugging

• 1.1- Write and execute local JVM unit tests

  • Fundamentals of testing Android Developer Docs
  • Unit testing from Android docs
  • Test your Room database from Android docs
  • Good article about Unit testing from ProAndroidDev

• 1.2- Write and execute Android UI tests

  • Testing Android patterns from AndroidDevelopers

• 1.3- Use the system log to output debug information

• 1.4- Debug and fix issues with an app's functional behavior and usability

  • Debugging tips from Black Lens

2) User interface (UI) and app functionality

• 2.1- Create an Activity that displays a layout

• 2.2- Construct a UI with ConstraintLayout

  • Build a Responsive UI with ConstraintLayout from Android docs
  • Animation example with ConstraintLayout from AndroidPub

• 2.3- Create a custom view class and add it to a layout

  • A good example to customize an EditText from Google developer training GitHub

• 2.4- Add accessibility hooks to a custom view

  • Build more accessible custom views from Android docs

• 2.5- Apply content descriptions to views for accessibility

• 2.6- Implement a custom app theme

  • The Styles and Themes guide from Android docs
  • Guide to develop custom themes from codepath

• 2.7- Display items in a RecyclerView

• 2.8- Bind local data to a RecyclerView list using the paging library

  • A good article to learn to use the paging library at ProAndroidDev
  • Another article to use paging library atMindorks
  • An easy article to understand to learn to use the paging library using Room from Knowledge Transfer

• 2.9- Implement menu-based or drawer navigation

  • Create a navigation drawer from Android docs
  • Create a menu from Android docs

• 2.10- Localize the app

  • Localization from Android docs

• 2.11- Display notifications, toasts, and snackbar messages

• 2.12- Schedule a background task using JobScheduler

  • Schedule jobs intelligently from Android docs
  • Good article to Schedule tasks from Vogella

• 2.13- Efficiently run jobs in the background

  • Guide to background processing from Android docs

3) App data and files

• 3.1- Define data using Room entities

  • Android Persistence with Room Database sample

• 3.2- Access Room database with data access object (DAO)

• 3.3- Observe and respond to changing data using LiveData

  • LiveData overview from Android docs
  • Good article to learn LiveData at jensklingenberg
  • Well explained article to differentiate patterns and antipatterns using LiveData and ViewModel at Android Developers
  • Great article to point out AAC pitfalls at Medium

• 3.4- Use a Repository to handle data operations

  • Guide to understand better AAC from Android docs
  • Awesome video tutorial to learn Room, ViewModel, LiveData, Dagger 2 and MVVM Architecture from wiseAss

• 3.5- Read and parse raw resources or asset files

  • How to add Assets, Files, and Data Parsing from CommonsWare
  • Tutorial which explains how to use Assets from MobileDevHub
  • GitHub repo which shows how to use Assets from GitHub

• 3.6- Create persistent preference data from user input

  • How to save key-value data from Android docs

• 3.7- Change the behavior of the app based on user preferences

  • How to add settings from Android docs