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To prepare for the Associate Android Developer certification exam, developers should:
- Understand the architecture of the Android system
- Be able to describe the basic building blocks of an Android app
- Know how to build and run an Android app
- Display simple messages in a popup using a
Toast or a Snackbar
- Be able to display a message outside your app's UI using
Notifications
- Understand how to localize an app
- Be able to schedule a background task using
WorkManager
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Last updated 2023-12-05 UTC.
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