SKILL BENCHMARK

Android Data Connectivity and Persistence Literacy (Beginner Level)

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  • 9 questions
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The Android Data Connectivity and Persistence Literacy (Beginner Level) benchmark assesses your knowledge of displaying images in an Android app with Glide, making GET requests with HTTPUrlConnection, and using coroutines to efficiently access data from the backend. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the skills to build Android applications by accessing data from the Internet.

Topics covered

  • display formatted JSON data in an app
  • display images fetched from the internet using a RecyclerView
  • display images in a ListView
  • display images in an Android app
  • map data class members to JSON fields using Serialized Name
  • outline the use of networking operations in Android
  • place a GET request to a REST API from the Android app
  • set up internet access in Android
  • use coroutines and dispatchers to fetch data