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I have been learning android for a while now and T want totest my skills so that I know what I need to work on.

Are there some quizzes or tests that I can take to check my knowledge? May be you can guide me to some kind of test like at the oDesk?

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What about starting to build a real application and deploy it to the market? This could be a great and real test :) – Amokrane Chentir Jun 18 '11 at 11:38
@Amokrane we are doing that. but i just wanted to know how i code is the right step. so wanted to test the skills :P – Harsha M V Jun 18 '11 at 12:15
I understand, I added some links to useful open source projects that you should read as well! See my edit :) – Amokrane Chentir Jun 18 '11 at 12:22

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If you want to test your skills on Android, there are two things you could do besides looking for a quiz:

  • Browse the Android tag on StackOverflow and try answering questions. People will ask about their real cases issues and this is great to test your knowledge on the platform. There will be some questions you could answer and other you could not and this will encourage you to learn even more.

  • Start building a real application, NOW! Learning something by reading the documentation is essential, but you need to put that into practise or your knowledge will remain very theoretical.

Regarding your reply and the fact that you want to make sure that your coding style is good enough, I recommand you diving into some open source projects. There are two projects, in my opinion, that are good to check. First of all Shelves written by Romain Guy (he works at Google, and works on UI related Android stuff) and the firt Foursquare Android application written by Joe LaPenna. There are just tons of gold in those projects!

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Maybe it's not exactly what you want, but an excellent way to gauge your knowledge is to read some questions about Android here on SO, and see how many you can give a correct answer; the more, the better. Help yourself and help others at the same time.

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Hah, we thought about the same thing :). Nice suggestion! – Amokrane Chentir Jun 18 '11 at 11:48
Thanks a lot. Makes sense. Hope to answer a few questions from now on. – Harsha M V Jun 18 '11 at 12:16
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I have compiled a list of questions here: Android Interview questions

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Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Yannis Rizos♦ Aug 20 '12 at 9:13

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