kioko / android-liveData-viewModel

Android LiveData & ViewModel Demo

A simple android project that demonstrates how to implement Android Architecture Components.

Architecture

The app uses ViewModel to abstract the data from UI and TmdbRepository as single source of truth for data. TmdbRepository first fetch the data from database if exist than display data to the user and at the same time it also fetches data from the webservice and update the result in database and reflect the changes to UI from database.

Requirements

• JDK Version 1.7 & above
• Android Studio Preview Version 3.0

Prerequisites

For the app to make requests you require a TMDB API key.

If you don’t already have an account, you will need to create one in order to request an API Key.

Once you have it, open gradle.properties file and paste your API key in TMDB_API_KEY variable.

Libraries

• Android Support Library
• Android Architecture Components
• Dagger 2 for dependency injection
• Retrofit for REST api communication
• OkHttp for adding interceptors to Retrofit
• Glide for image loading
• Timber for logging
• espresso for UI tests
• mockito for mocking in tests

License

Copyright 2017 Thomas Kioko


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