Animesh API Blog

Demo video of Blog website using CRUD functionality:

• https://youtu.be/I5jV_RvyGv0

Django Website Repo

https://github.com/animeshroydev/animesh-api

Finished App Branch:

• https://github.com/animeshroydev/AnimesAPIBlog/tree/FinishedAppBranch

Tech Stack:

• Kotlin:

Coroutines:

• Advanced coroutine management using jobs

• Cancelling active jobs

• Coroutine scoping

Navigation Components:

• Bottom Navigation View with fragments

• Leveraging multiple navigation graphs (this is cutting edge content)

Dagger 2:

• custom scopes, fragment injection, activity injection, Viewmodel injection

MVI architecture:

• Basically this is MVVM with some additions

State management

• Building a generic BaseViewModel

• Repository pattern (NetworkBoundResource)

Room Persistence:

• SQLite on Android with Room Persistence library

• Custom queries, inserts, deletes, updates

• Foreign Key relationships

• Multiple database tables

Cache:

• Database caching (saving data from network into local cache)

• Single source of truth principal

Retrofit 2:

• Handling any type of response from server (success, error, none, etc...)

• Returning LiveData from Retrofit calls (Retrofit Call Adapter)

ViewModels:

• Sharing a ViewModel between several fragments

• Building a powerful generic BaseViewModel

WebViews:

• Interacting with the server through a webview (Javascript)

SearchView:

• Programmatically implement a SearchView

• Execute search queries to network and db cache

Images:

• Selecting images from phone memory

• Cropping images to a specific aspect ratio

• Setting limitations on image size and aspect ratio

• Uploading a cropped image to server

Network Request Management:

• Cancelling pending network requests (Kotlin coroutines)

• Testing for network delays

Pagination:

• Paginating objects returned from server and database cache

Material Design:

• Bottom Navigation View with Fragments

• Customizing Bottom Navigation Icon behavior

• Handling Different Screen Sizes (ConstraintLayout)

• Material Dialogs

• Fragment transition animations