Civics Test 2022 app

The app is now live!

Simple app for running through the 2022 USCIS Civics Test. Features include:

• Quiz questions with written answer prompts rather than multiple choice (real interview isn’t multiple choice, but all apps seem to be)
• Go through the entire pool of questions
• Only ask missed questions after the first iteration
• Option to reset pool of known questions
• Marketed by my cat
• Has a sweet cat logo

The app is functional enough for me to study for my interview in three days. That said, there are some bugs left:

• Quiz Activity view issues
  • Buttons don’t shrink with the soft keyboard enabled
  • Text input field has an extra line above
  • Pressing enter in the text input field should submit the answer
  • Question field should be using the screen space better (reduce button sizes)
  • Question field should be scrollable
• Submitting an empty string is ‘correct’ - sounds like a feature to run quickly through questions you know the answers to, towards the end of studying
• Some of the questions don’t have any answers set because they’re state-specific
• Some of the questions don’t have any answers set because they’re time-specific (update for 2022)
• App crashes after the last question
• Indexing is wrong: first question doesn’t show up

Stretch goals:

• Display scores, store them between state resets
• Automatically pull the USCIS PDF on startup and import it
• Use localized answers for state-specific questions
• Release a generic quizzing framework
• Set the font size within the app

Resources used

• Kotlin Android Quiz App in Android Studio
• Android: Build your first app

License

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International