E Vehicle Android General - 6

Question 1

What is the solution you should try if your android project doesn’t run and this is the error?:

Cause: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Answer 1

If on the VPN, turn off the VPN and try it again

Question 2

Between Final Check In and Condition, which one\s use MVVM archeticute?

Answer 2

Final Check In does, Condition does not.

Question 3

How do you pronounce gennymotion and what is it?

Answer 3

Jenny-Motion.

It is an Android emulator that is an alternative to the one that Android Studio ships with. Many Android developers prefer it over the Android Studio option.

Question 4

If you are trying to build and you are getting metadata errors that say google in the name, what is a possible solution?

Answer 4

If you are on it, log off of the network (VPN) and retry.

Question 5

When do the following events happen?

PR Build

Black Duck Scan

CI (Jenkins) Build

Answer 5

PR Builder runs when the code it pushed to Bitbucket.

The Black Duck scan is part of the PR Builder, thus it happens when the code is pushed to Bitbucket.

The CI job runs when the PR is merged.

Question 6

What are the steps for using condition via Vehicle Switch Out (VSO)?

Answer 6

Use the open app

Go to Ticket Search

Search for a vehicle

Alternatively:

It may be easier to search by last name “DIAZ”

Question 7

What is the easy way to find a vehicle via open or close?

In close, what should you do if you keep getting an exception while trying to selecting a vehicle?

Answer 7

Search by name using the last name “DIAZ”

In close, you may have to change your location to 0523

Question 8

When making calls via retrofit and EHI is blocking it. What is something you can try to fix it?

Answer 8

From the tablet, go to any webpage and sign in.

Question 9

In terms of wear and tear damage in condition, what is claimable and what is not?

Answer 9

If not wear and tear - it is claimable.

If it is wear and tear damage - it is not claimable.

Question 10

What is the condition and final check in version number for the following?…

DEC2019

JAN202

FEB2020

MARCH2020

Answer 10

DEC2019 = 3.4.0

JAN202 = 3.5.0

FEB2020 = 3.6.0

MARCH2020 = 3.7.0

APRIL2020 = 3.8.0

MAY2020 = 3.9.0

Question 11

Simply put, what does ProGuard do?

Answer 11

It “shrinks” your app to make your app as small as possible by using

obfuscation, which shortens the names of your app’s classes and members, and optimization, which applies more aggressive strategies to further reduce the size of your app.

Question 12

If you have a CI job that is failing due to ProGuard issues, what is a possible solution?

Answer 12

In the proguard rules file, add ‘keep’ and/or ‘keep name’ or ‘dont warn’ commands.

This will prevent those files or classes from being “shrunk” by proguard.

Question 13

Simply, what is a controllingGroupBranch?

Answer 13

A controlling group branch is the branch that actually owns the vehicle. This is often times different than the groupbranch where the vehicle is physically at.

Question 14

In Condition and Final Check In, what should never be null?

Answer 14

Session

Question 15

In Condition and Final Check In, should session ever be null?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What device uses close and what device uses quickclose?

Answer 16

The tablet uses close and the zerba uses quickclose.

Question 17

What is the command to checkout a remote branch?

What will happen?

Answer 17

git checkout

This will create a local copy of the remote branch and give it the same name.

Question 18

What is the shortcut to go to a line in Android Studio / IntelliJ?

Answer 18

cmnd + L

Question 19

What do we use at enterprise to format our code?

Answer 19

Google formatter

Question 20

What is the naming convention for tests that we use on the Android Vehicle team?

Answer 20

testMethodName_ExpectedBehavior_WhenCondtionBlahBlah

Question 21

What does FTE stand for?

Answer 21

Full Time Employee

Question 22

What is a SME?

Answer 22

Subject Manager Expert

Question 23

What is the intelliJ and android studio mac shortcut to surround selected text in a statement such as an if statement, for loop, try/catch, etc?

Answer 23

alt + cmnd + t

Question 24

What is the very useful tool in Android Studio that allows you to inspect any layout that is on the screen of your device or emulator?

Answer 24

Tools > Layout Inspector

Question 25

Why is it a good idea to keep logic out of your activities?

Answer 25

Because the less logic you have in your activities, the easier it is to test it because testing activities is a pain. If your logic is elsewhere, you can test it with a regular unit test.

Question 26

Where in our vehicle apk code is the code for jenkins pipelines?

How do you get to it?

Answer 26

It is in pipeline.json

You can get to it by double shifting search for pipeline and to see the file structure you have to change the project pane to be project view.