Star Wars search

Hey there 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 This branch introduces some of the basic ideas on Componentization as shown by the UI Engineering team at Netflix. Resources here: Blog, Repo

For a fuller implementation, check out this branch

You can also check this branch for a different approach to the project

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