Android Engineer Assignment.md

📱 Mobile Engineer Assignment

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🧩 Introduction

This assignment evaluates:

• Problem-solving ability
• Code quality (clean, production-ready)
• Communication skills
• Technical implementation

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🎬 Scenario

Build a movie discovery app for cinema operators (e.g. Cathay).

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📋 Requirements

🏠 Home Screen

• List of available movies

• Sorted by release date (descending)

• Features:

  • Pull-to-refresh
  • Infinite scroll (load more on bottom)

Each movie item must include:

• Poster / Backdrop image
• Title
• Popularity

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📄 Detail Screen

Display additional movie details:

• Synopsis
• Genres
• Language
• Duration

🎟 Booking

• Simulate opening booking link in WebView

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🎨 Frontend Design

• Free to design
• Keep it simple and clean

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🔌 Backend

Use TMDb API as data source:

• API Key:

  328c283cd27bd1877d9080ccb1604c91
  

Sample APIs

Get Movies

http://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=328c283cd27bd1877d9080ccb1604c91&primary_release_date.lte=2016-12-31&sort_by=release_date.desc&page=1

Get Movie Details

http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/328111?api_key=328c283cd27bd1877d9080ccb1604c91

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⚙️ Technical Requirements

iOS

• Swift ≥ 4.0
• RxSwift
• MVVM

Android

• Kotlin or Java
• RxJava
• MVVM
• Dependency Injection
• Data Binding

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🧪 Testing

• Unit tests required
• Focus on main functionalities

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📦 Submission

• Upload to Git platform:

  • GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket

• Repository must be public

• Share link with recruiter

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✅ Evaluation Criteria

• Clean, readable, maintainable code

• Performance

• Clear documentation:

  • Assumptions
  • Design decisions

• Unit test coverage

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🔗 References

• https://www.cathaycineplexes.com.sg/
• https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/introduction

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🎉 Notes

That’s the end of the assignment — have fun building!

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Estimated Scoring Breakdown.md

📊 Estimated Scoring Breakdown (100 points)

🧠 1. Architecture & Code Quality — 30 pts

Most important section

• Clean architecture (MVVM correctly implemented) → 10
• Readability & maintainability → 10
• Proper separation of concerns → 5
• Naming conventions & structure → 5

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⚙️ 2. Core Features Implementation — 25 pts

Home Screen — 15 pts

• Movie list display → 5
• Sorting by release date → 3
• Pull-to-refresh → 3
• Pagination (infinite scroll) → 4

Detail Screen — 10 pts

• Correct data display → 5
• WebView booking simulation → 5

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🔌 3. API Integration & Data Handling — 15 pts

• Proper API usage (TMDb) → 5
• Error handling (network, empty states) → 5
• Data parsing & mapping → 5

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🧪 4. Unit Testing — 10 pts

• Coverage of key logic (ViewModel, use cases) → 6
• Test quality & meaningful assertions → 4

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🎨 5. UI/UX Quality — 10 pts

• Clean and intuitive UI → 4
• Smooth user experience → 3
• Responsiveness & edge cases → 3

(Note: “Simple is good”, so don’t overinvest here)

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🧰 6. Android/iOS Best Practices — 5 pts

• Dependency Injection → 2
• Data Binding / reactive patterns → 2
• Lifecycle handling → 1

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📄 7. Documentation — 5 pts

• README clarity → 3
• Explanation of decisions & assumptions → 2

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🧮 Summary Table

Category	Points
Architecture & Code Quality	30
Features Implementation	25
API & Data Handling	15
Unit Testing	10
UI/UX	10
Best Practices	5
Documentation	5
Total	100

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💡 What Actually Gets You Hired (Reality Check)

Even though everything is scored, in practice:

• 70+ → acceptable
• 80+ → strong candidate
• 85+ → likely shortlist
• 90+ → standout

👉 The real differentiator is:

• Clean architecture (MVVM done properly)
• Thoughtful decisions (not just working code)
• Good README explaining trade-offs

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