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StarWarsSearch

Search for your favorite star wars characters from Swapi API. Uses Android Jetpack, clean architecture with MVI (Uni-directional data flow), dagger hilt, DFM Navigation, and kotlin coroutines with StateFlow
Updated 4 months ago

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Star Wars search

Hey there 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 This is the first implementation for this project. Check out this branch that showcases the idea of Componentization as shown by the UI Engineering team at Netflix. Resources here: Blog, Repo

You can check out my thought process in this file

Features

  • Clean Architecture with MVI (Uni-directional data flow)
  • View components
  • Kotlin Coroutines with Flow
  • Dagger Hilt
  • Kotlin Gradle DSL
  • GitHub actions for CI

Prerequisite

To build this project, you require:

  • Android Studio 4.2 canary 8 or higher
  • Gradle 6.6.1

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Libraries

  • Viewmodel - Presenter for persisting view state across config changes
  • FlowBinding - converts traditional view click listeners and call backs to Kotlin flow
  • Room - Provides abstraction layer over SQLite
  • Retrofit - type safe http client and supports coroutines out of the box.
  • Moshi - JSON Parser,used to parse requests on the data layer for Entities and understands Kotlin non-nullable and default parameters
  • okhttp-logging-interceptor - logs HTTP request and response data.
  • kotlinx.coroutines - Library Support for coroutines,provides runBlocking coroutine builder used in tests
  • Truth - Assertions Library,provides readability as far as assertions are concerned
  • MockWebServer - web server for testing HTTP clients ,verify requests and responses on the star wars api with the retrofit client.
  • Robolectric - Unit test on android framework.
  • Espresso - Test framework to write UI Tests
  • Dagger Hilt - handles dependency injection
  • Kotlin Gradle DSL