Servicenow-Android-Exercise

Take-home project for Servicenow Android Candidates

Requirements

• A computer setup for Android development (contact your recruiter if one is not available)

Objectives:

• Have fun
• Demonstrate knowledge of Android development

Exercise Details

• You may use Java or Kotlin, both options are available to you.
• You are free to use any third party libraries. For your convenience, we have already added a few commonly used libraries in the build.gradle.
• Please use git and commit often with meaningful commit messages, just as you would when working on a team.
• If you make an assumption during this exercise, run with it, but please write it down in a comment so we know the assumption when reviewing the code.
• You should fix any memory leaks, crashes, or bad practices you might find.
• Remember to think about common pitfalls such as how your app handles a configuration change.

You are given a simple project with a list of Coffee Shop Reviews. This list is loaded from locally stored data in a class called CoffeeShopReviews.

Exercise 1:

Replace the ListView with a RecyclerView. Upon tapping a recycler view cell, open a detail activity or fragment and show the review, rating, and location.

Exercise 2:

Use Retrofit or a similar networking library to load the review information from a web resource (https://jsonblob.com/api/jsonBlob/74b816e1-7ab6-11eb-becc-7588990e0458) instead of using the local data. You may use Gson or another parsing library.

Extra Credit:

• Improve the project in any way you see fit (UX/UI, code structure, etc) and explain your enhancements in comments.

When you are done

Zip the project and email it back to the recruiter.