Course Information
Course Overview
Tips on how to master your mobile system design interview at FAANG companies – plus 2 extensive mock interviews!
Prepare for and master your mobile system design interview at any big tech or FAANG company, whether it be Google or Apple. Get a detailed walkthrough of several important topics asked in these interviews, and tips and tricks from a Google Developer Agency Tech Lead.
Stefan started developing Android apps - almost from Android's birth - in 2011, and since then had to design and develop a handful of Android, iOS, and Multiplatform apps. During that time he also walked through system design interviews at FAANG companies by himself and therefore wants to share his experience in this course.
Mobile technical interviews at big tech companies are quite challenging and the mobile system design part is often the most unclear and demanding. Many learning resources on the Internet cover backend system design, but there are very limited resources available for mobile system design. This course brings light to mobile system design interviews and gets you prepared for landing your dream job at one of the big tech companies. Despite the course being especially targeted at Android, most concepts also apply to iOS.
About 9 hours of on-demand video content will cover what you need to know for your mobile system design interview:
Discussion of most important networking concepts, background work, and failure handling
Choosing the right networking protocol/technology among polling, web sockets, server-sent events, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, REST, Push Notifications, and more for a given use case
Learn about different pagination techniques for large amounts of data
Overview of storage types including the file system, preferences, SQL and NoSQL databases, and secure storage, and learn when to use which
Learn how to scale your app and backend for billions of users by taking into account the concepts of connectivity, data cost, device ranges, battery consumption, responsive UI, app startup time, and memory footprints
Techniques on how to build an offline-capable app
Get advice on the process and timing of mobile system design interviews
Interview strategies for structuring your mobile system design interview
Two extensive mock interviews with real-world mobile system design interview questions, from requirements definition to high-level and detailed design
Course Content
- 11 section(s)
- 115 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Networking
- Section 3 Storage
- Section 4 Build for Billions
- Section 5 Interview Strategies
- Section 6 Mock Interviews
- Section 7 Q&A
- Section 8 Google I/O 2023 Additions
- Section 9 Google I/O 2024 Additions
- Section 10 Google I/O 2025 Additions
- Section 11 Final Notes
What You’ll Learn
- Practice solving real-world mobile system design interview questions, Understand the mobile system design interview process, Get to know useful tips and tricks during the interview, Understand how to design apps for billions of users, Be able to discuss a wide variety of topics including networking, storage, mobile system resources, and much more
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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NNoor Ul Ain
Instructor is less interactive and seems like reading the content and slides are pretty less interactive and boring
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JJosip
While I appreciate the existence of this course because the materials on Mobile System Design is quite scarce and all over the place, I wouldn't recommend this course for people aiming senior or higher positions. The course goes to deep into technicals and it feels like the instructor is just reading them from documentation without any good explanations when and why should be something used or not. The mock interview part feels little bit off and to artificial. If you are preparing for System Design Interviews I highly recommend that you search for additional materials for preparation, especially on the technique how to present your design and what are the signals that the interviewer is looking for.
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DDeepak Jiwal
I was able to find less resources for Android System Design. This is a good course to start with System Design preparation I highly appreciate response from Author. There were some queries while going through the course and those were addressed in a detailed manner. Happy to learn new insights in Android System Design and getting clarification for queries in detail. Looking forward for next course “Mastering the Android System Design Interview: Advanced Topics”
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ggaurav Kumar
No explanation of anything it seems as instructor is just reading what is written on slides. Updated : - First review was based on the first section. Which I did not find very engaging. I am updating my review after completing 4 sections.