Mobile Image and Media Handling Questions

Designing and implementing efficient strategies for loading, processing, caching, storing, and delivering images and other media on resource constrained mobile devices. Key areas include memory safe image decoding and rendering, in memory and on disk caching strategies and eviction policies, adaptive image resolution and format selection, compression and transcode strategies, thumbnail generation, progressive and lazy loading, streaming and chunked downloads, resumable transfers, handling very large files, disk quota and storage management, background transfers and battery impact, integration with content delivery networks and remote storage, security and permission considerations for media access, support for offline and sync scenarios, and profiling and tooling to measure memory, CPU, and network costs. Candidates may also be assessed on tradeoffs between client side and server side processing, use of hardware acceleration, and testing strategies for media correctness and performance.