You heard that Agilevent is hiring, and now you’d like to join the team?
Our latest open position is a contract remote position. You can live in Minneapolis, Phoenix, NYC, Romania, wherever – it doesn’t matter.
In order to be considered for a position at Agilevent, you must follow these steps.
Note: This task should take no longer than 15-20 minutes at the most.
- Fork this repository (if you don’t know how to do that, google is your friend)
- In the github-challenge directory, please open the existing Android app and refactor it to fix the issues listed below. The application is a simple application that connects to the github api and pulls down the latest commits from the rails/rails repository. Howevere, there are three issues which need to be fixed.
- Issue 1: The app automatically closes upon the start of the app. The app should start and run.
- Issue 2: When it does run, it doesnt look like the screenshot The app should look like the screenshot. Don’t worry about the background color. Black is fine.
- When the network is slow sometimes the user will get an ANR error , this should not happen. Please fix the code to make sure this does not happen.
The final app should look like this
- Add your resume to the resume directory, this document can be a simple link to your online resume if you’d like.
- Commit and Push your code to your new repository
- Send us a pull request, we will review your code and get back to you
Please note that these tests all require some basic java and Android knowledge. If you don’t know java, take a few minutes to learn the basics and if you don’t know Android learn about it here . You will need to have Java, Eclipse (or IntelliJ), and the Android SDK installed.