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•Builder Pattern in Kotlin?•Collections API in Kotlin?•Covariance in Kotlin?•Delay vs Thread.sleep?•Difference Between const val and val?•Difference between Coroutine and Java Thread?•Difference between Flow/SharedFlow/StateFlow and elaborate it.•Dispatchers.Default vs Dispatchers.IO?•Exception Handling in Coroutine?•Higher Order Functions in Kotlin?•How does Coroutine switch context?•How to choose between apply and with?•How to manage series and parallel execution?•Is singleton thread-safe? vs Object?•Map vs FlatMap in Kotlin?•On which thread does Dispatchers.Default execute the task or use which thread?•Singleton Pattern in Kotlin with object keyword?•StateFlow vs SharedFlow?•Suspending vs Blocking in Kotlin Coroutines?•What are Dispatchers and name all of them?•What are the different Coroutine Scopes?•What happens if we call .cancel() from a coroutine scope?•What is an Init block in Kotlin?•What is Data Class in Kotlin?•What is inline function in Kotlin?•What is SupervisorScope?•What is Unidirectional Flow?•When to use Kotlin sealed classes?•Why Coroutines are lightweight?•What is Coroutine Context?•How to choose between apply and with??•Open keyword in Kotlin?•Is it possible to force the Garbage Collection in Android??•let scope function and its use cases?•What is the difference between open and public in Kotlin??•Launch vs Async in Kotlin Coroutines?•Why do we need to call setContentView() in onCreate() of Activity class?•What is Coroutine Scope??•What is a ViewModel and how is it useful??•Write a function(Higher-Order Function) that returns a function.?•What are Labels in Kotlin?•Android Push Notification Flow using FCM?•How does the Kotlin Multiplatform work?•What is a JvmStatic Annotation in Kotlin?•JvmOverloads Annotation in Kotlin?•What is the equivalent of Java static methods in Kotlin??•What is an inline function in Kotlin?•Difference between List and Array types in Kotlin?•What is Coroutine Context??•`inline` vs `noinline` vs `crossinline`?•`launch` vs `async` in Coroutines?•`lateinit` vs `lazy` initialization?•What are Data Classes and their requirements?•Sealed Class vs Enum?•How do Extension Functions work under the hood?•Scope functions: `apply` vs `also` vs `run` vs `let` vs `with`?•`companion object` vs `object`?•Usage of `@JvmStatic` annotation?•Delegated Properties and the `by` keyword?•Reified types in inline functions?•Covariance (`out`) vs Contravariance (`in`)?•`viewModelScope` vs `lifecycleScope`?•`flowOn` vs `subscribeOn` (threading)?•Cold Flow vs Hot Flow (StateFlow/SharedFlow)?•Exception handling nuances in `launch` vs `async`?•Usage of `yield()` in Coroutines?•What is `Nothing` type and its potential uses?•Difference between `Unit` and `Void`?•When and how to use `typealias`?•Explain Operator Overloading in Kotlin?•How do Destructuring Declarations work?•What is the purpose of the `tailrec` modifier?•What are SAM (Single Abstract Method) conversions?•`@Volatile` vs `@Synchronized` annotations?•`Sequence` vs `Iterable`: Lazy vs Eager evaluation?•What is the Contract API in Kotlin?

•Build a small application where you have to fetch data from a given API and show a list on the screen. API - https://dragonball-api.com/api/characters.•Build an app to perform CRUD operations.•Build an app using a given API and perform a Search Operation. How to avoid multiple API calls if the user keeps typing the text? API - https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/intro/getting-started.•Build your own LRU cache.•Build an offline-first approach system.•Design and Build a Builder Pattern using Kotlin.•Build an app that saves Data to a file and can read a file.•Build a small stopwatch with functionality where I can show different laps to the user.•How you can design and build a notification system.•Design an app that manages user login sessions locally on the device.•Build your own Stack and Queue using core Kotlin and no helper functions.

•How does Garbage collection work?•What is a dangling pointer?•Elaborate Memory Leak?•Explain fragment lifecycle when it comes to ViewPager and sliding between different fragments.•Difference between FragmentStateAdapter and FragmentStatePagerAdapter.•Difference between Serializable and Parcelable? What are the disadvantages of Serializable?•How you could implement observable SharedPrefs or observable Databases i.e. Observe a certain key/table/query?•How does layout inflation work from xml tags to view references in memory?•What is a Thread, Handler, Looper, and Message Queue?•How does ViewModel instance provide to Activity and Fragment? How does ViewModelProviderStore decide when to retain the instance?•How do you inspect and solve the Jank issue?•How does OutOfMemory happen?•How do you find memory leaks in Android applications?•What is Doze? What about App Standby?•What does setContentView do?•Process of creating a custom view?•Deeplink understanding and architecture?•Notifications?•Difference between Fragment Lifecycle Observer and View Lifecycle Observer?•When should you use a Fragment rather than an Activity?•Explain the Android push notification system?•How LiveData is different from ObservableField?•What is the difference between setValue and postValue in LiveData?•What is process death?•What is ViewModelScope and how does it work internally?•What is Clean Architecture and its layers?•`ContentProvider` basic usage and why we need it?•Dalvik vs ART (Android Runtime)?•Explain `Looper`, `Handler`, and `MessageQueue`?•Service vs IntentService vs JobIntentService?•BroadcastReceiver limitations in newer Android versions?•`PendingIntent` immutability flags?•`Parcelable` vs `Serializable` performance?•SOLID Principles in Android context?•Benefits of the Repository Pattern?•Necessity of UseCases/Interactors?•Single Activity Architecture pros and cons?•What is the internal structure of an APK?•What are DEX files?•Android App Bundle (AAB) vs APK?•How does the Manifest Merging process work?•Evolution of the Android Permission Model?•What is the MVI (Model-View-Intent) Pattern?•Clean Architecture vs Hexagonal Architecture?•Modularization: Layer-based vs Feature-based?•What is the Navigator Pattern for navigation?•Error handling strategies in Clean Architecture?•Build Variants vs Product Flavors?•How to chain requests in WorkManager?•Handling Deep Links with Navigation Component?•CameraX vs Camera2 API?•Basics of Media3 / ExoPlayer?

•How to keep a video maintain a playing state when we rotate the screen?•How many callbacks are in Fragments?•What could be the reasons why onPause didn't get triggered?•What kind of events trigger onPause() to run?•In what scenario does the 'onDestroy' get called directly after 'onCreate'?•Which callback gets called on Activity when an AlertDialog is shown?•What's the lifecycle in PIP (Picture-in-Picture)?•What happens if you rotate the device?•Inside a viewpager (Fragment state pager adapter) what will be the lifecycle of the fragments when you swap from one tab to another?•Why onActivityCreated is now deprecated in Fragment?•Which callback should I use if I want to know when my activity came to the foreground?•When is onActivityResult called?•What does setRetainInstance do and how can you avoid it?•What callbacks trigger when a Dialog opens up? In both cases, the dialog is attached from the same activity/fragment and another activity/fragment.•What do launchWhenCreated, launchWhenStarted, and launchWhenResumed functions do?•Fragment Callbacks when moving from one fragment to another and coming back to prev one?•Does onCreateView get called after coming to a fragment from top fragment?•When does ViewModel not survive?•How to keep a video maintain a playing state when we rotate the screen?•How many callbacks are in Fragments?•What could be the reasons why `onPause` didn't get triggered?•What kind of events trigger `onPause()` to run?•In what scenario does the "onDestory" get called directly after "onCreate"?•Which callback gets called on Activity when an AlertDialog is shown?•What's the lifecycle in PIP (Picture-in-Picture)?•What happens if you rotate the device?•Inside a viewpager (Fragment state pager adapter) what will be the lifecycle of the fragments when you swap from one tab to another?•Why onActivityCreated is now depreciated in Fragment?•Which callback should I use if I want to know when my activity came to the foreground?•When is onActivityResult called?•What does setRetainInstance do and how you can avoid it?•What callbacks trigger when a Dialog opens up? In both cases, the dialog is attached from the same activity/fragment and another activity/fragment.•What do `launchWhenCreated`, `launchWhenStarted`, and `launchWhenResumed` functions do?•Fragment Callbacks when moving from one fragment to another and coming back to prev one?•Does onCreateView get called after coming to a fragment from top fragment?•When does ViewModel not survive •What are the different Coroutine Scopes?•How to manage series and parallel execution?•Difference between Flow/SharedFlow/StateFlow and elaborate it.•What happens if we call `.cancel()` from a coroutine scope?•What is an Init block in Kotlin?•How to choose between apply and with?•What is inline function in Kotlin?•Difference between Coroutine and Java Thread •Why Coroutines are light weight?•How does Coroutine switch context?•When to use Kotlin sealed classes?•Suspending vs Blocking in Kotlin Coroutines •What are Dispatchers and Name all of them •On which thread Dispatchers .Default execute the task or use which thread?•Dispatchers .Default vs Dispatcher .IO •What is SupervisorScope?•Exception Handling in Coroutine •Map vs FlatMap in kotlin •Singleton Pattern in Kotlin with object keyword •Collections API in Kotlin •What is Unidirectional Flow •StateFlow vs SharedFlow •Builder Pattern in Kotlin •Higher Order Functions in Kotlin •Covariance in Kotlin •Delay vs Thread.sleep?•Process Death vs Activity Destruction?•Activity Lifecycle: A starts B, what happens to A?•Fragment Lifecycle vs View Lifecycle?•`onSaveInstanceState` vs `onRestoreInstanceState` usage?•Saving ViewModel state across process death?

•What is the role of OkHttp and Retrofit?•What design pattern does Retrofit use?•How to optimize access token expiration handling?•How to handle retry for failed API calls with custom interceptors?•What is the role of OkHttp and Retrofit?•What design pattern does Retrofit use?•How would optimize the handling of access token expiration? How would you handle a retry network call when the API fails? (Custom Interceptor response)•How does Retrofit work under the hood?•OkHttp Interceptors: Application vs Network?•Caching strategies in Retrofit?•What is Certificate Pinning?•How to use WebSockets with OkHttp?•Using GraphQL in Android (Apollo)?•What are the benefits of using Cronet?•Strategies for Offline Synchronization?

•What are the security concerns with WebView?•How to interact with JavaScript in WebView?

•Provides vs Binds in Dependency Injection?•Subcomponent vs Component dependency in Dagger?•What is a Subcomponent and its use in Dagger?•Constructor Injection vs Method Injection?•What is the Scope in Dependency Injection?•What is a Circular Dependency in Dagger? How to resolve it?•What is interesting about Hilt?•What are your thoughts on Koin?•Provides vs binds •Subcomponent vs. component dependency, what is the difference under the hood •What is a subcomponent and what is its use? How do you use qualifiers or how would you provide different instances of a class with the same data type? Constructor Injection V/s Method Injection? What is the scope? Singleton Annotation?•What is Circular dependency in dagger? and how to resolve it •What's interesting about Hilt?•Did you use Koin? What are your thoughts on it?•Difference between `@Provides` vs `@Binds` in Hilt?•Scoping annotations (`@Singleton`, `@ActivityRetainedScoped`)?•Qualifier annotations (`@Named` etc)?•Constructor Injection vs Field Injection?•Hilt Application Component vs Activity Component?•What is Assisted Injection in Hilt?•What are Multibindings with Dagger/Hilt?•What is Lazy Injection?•Explain Scopes in Koin?

•What is Robolectric, and when to use it?•What are UI tests, and how to implement them in Android?•How to write Espresso tests for RecyclerView?•Difference between @Test and @ParameterizedTest?•What are Instrumentation Tests in Android?•How to mock dependencies in Android tests using Mockito?•How to test ViewModel logic with LiveData?•How to use Hilt for testing in Android?•How to perform API mocking in Android tests?•What is the role of MockWebServer in testing?•How to write Coroutine tests in Android?•What is the importance of TestCoroutineDispatcher?•What are test doubles, and when to use them?•How to verify navigation actions in Jetpack Compose tests?•What is snapshot testing in Jetpack Compose?•Mockito vs Mockk?•Testing Compose UI (Semantics tree)?•Espresso vs Compose Test Rule?•Roboelectric vs Instrumentation tests?•How to handle Flaky Tests?•Screenshot testing tools (Paparazzi/Roborazzi)?•Difference between Fakes, Mocks, and Stubs?•What is `IdlingResource` in Espresso?•Testing coroutines using `TestDispatcher`?

•How to optimize Android applications for low memory?•What are tools for performance profiling in Android?•How to reduce APK size in Android?•What are ProGuard and R8, and how to use them?•How to use Android Lint for performance improvements?•What are the best practices for battery optimization in Android?•How to minimize Jank in Compose UI rendering?•What is the role of the Android Profiler?•How to use StrictMode to identify potential issues?•How to optimize database queries in Room?•How to leverage WorkManager for efficient background tasks?•How to diagnose and fix application ANR (Application Not Responding)?•What is a Memory Leak and how to detect it?•What are Baseline Profiles?•How to use SysTrace?•What is Perfetto and how to use it?•Features of the Layout Inspector?•Features of the Database Inspector?•Techniques to reduce APK size?

•What is Room, and how does it simplify database handling?•Difference between Room and SQLite?•How to manage migrations in Room?•What is LiveData, and how to use it with Room?•What are the benefits of using Paging with Room?•How to optimize complex queries in Room?•What are relationships in Room, and how to model them?•What is a Flow in Room, and how to observe changes?•How to handle multiple databases in an Android app?•How to test Room database with Hilt?•What is Scoped Storage in Android?•Room vs SQLite differences?•DataStore: Preferences vs Proto?•Role of `RemoteMediator` in Paging 3?

•What is Kotlin Multiplatform, and how is it used in Android?•What is Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, and what are its use cases?•How to implement adaptive layouts for foldable devices?•What is MotionLayout, and how to use it effectively?•What is the role of JNI in Android development?•How to create a custom Gradle plugin for Android?•What are Flavors in Android, and how to set them up?•How to implement custom animations with the Animation API?•How to optimize apps for Android TV?•What are Android Auto apps, and how to create one?•How to implement app widgets with Glance API?•How does the Android Binder mechanism work?•How does R8/ProGuard work (shrinking/obfuscation)?•What is the role of the Zygote process?•What is the role of Activity Manager Service (AMS)?•What is the responsibility of WindowManager?•What is the role of SurfaceFlinger?•Explain the Android Boot Process steps?•Kotlin DSL (KTS) vs Groovy for Gradle?•Explain the Gradle Task Lifecycle?•Basics of ProGuard rules syntax?•What are the benefits of Version Catalogs?

•How does Garbage collection works?•What is a dangling pointer?•Elaborate Memory Leak?•Explain fragment Lifecycle when it comes to ViewPager and sliding between different fragments.•Difference between FragmentStateAdapter and FragmentStatePagerAdapter.•Difference between Serializable and Parcelable? What are the disadvantages of Serializable?•How you could implement observable SharedPrefs or observable Databases i.e. Observe a certain key/table/query?•How does layout inflation work from xml tags to view references in memory?•What is a Thread, Handler, Looper, and Message Queue?•What are the different methods of concurrency on Android? Can you explain the difference between ExecutorService vs CachedThreadPool vs FixedThreadPool vs AsyncTasks vs HandlerThreads?•How does `ViewModel` instance provide to Activity and Fragment? How does `ViewModelProviderStore` decide when to retain the instance?•How do you inspect and solve the Jank issue? [here](https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/jank-detection)•How does the OutOfMemory happen?•How do you find memory leaks in Android applications?•What is Doze? What about App Standby?•What does `setContentView` do?•Process of creating a custom view •Deeplink understanding and architecture •Notifications •Difference between Fragment Lifecycle Observer and View Lifecycle Observer.•When should you use a Fragment rather than an Activity?•Explain the Android push notification system.•How LiveData is different from ObservableField?•What is the difference between setValue and postValue in LiveData?•What is process death?•What is ViewModelScope and How does it work internally?

•What are the problems around security when dealing with `WebView`?•How to interact or make connections with JavaScript?

•Different types of threads?•Difference between different types of thread?•Thread <-> Handler <-> looper •UI vs Background Thread •How do you know when some process if blocking a UI thread?

•What are SOLID principles?•What is MVVM?•Brief about Android Architecture.•MVP vs MVVM?•Is there any issue in the Presenter in the MVP?•Clean Architecture •MVVM vs MVI •What is Clean Architecture in MVVM •What are Provides and Binds in your Dagger library

•What is SOLID principle?•What are different design patterns you know about?•What is a creational pattern?•What is a structural pattern?•What is a behavioral pattern?•Create Singleton Pattern without Kotlin default implementation •Create Observer Pattern •Create Adapter Pattern •How to make a Singleton Pattern Thread Safe?•What is Dependency Inversion •Write a real-life example of Dependency Injection without using any library •Explain how Android Architecture components (ViewModel, LiveData, etc.) utilize design patterns behind the scenes

•Design Image Loading Library •Design Image Downloading Library •Design LRU Cache •Design a real-time Twitter feed timeline. How will you structure the backend? Will you use WebSocket or REST for this use case? Justify.•Design Networking Library •Design Checkout Screen •Design Error handling Structure •REST <-> Web Sockets •Implement caching mechanism •Build an offline-first app •Design Analytics Library

•How does Glide internally work?•How does retrofit work internally?•ViewModel internal working •How will you choose between Dagger 2 and Dagger-Hilt?

•`String` vs `StringBuilder`•`==` vs `.equals`?•`===` vs `==`?•Java OOP concepts

•How to secure API keys in Android applications?•Handling secure data in local storage?•What is Network Security Configuration?•How to integrate Biometric Authentication?•What is the Android Keystore system?•How to use `EncryptedSharedPreferences`?•Preventing SQL Injection in Android?

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