MarvelHeroes

MarvelHeroes is a demo application based on modern Android application tech-stacks and MVVM architecture.
Fetching data from the network and integrating persisted data in the database via repository pattern.

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Tech stack & Open-source libraries

• Minimum SDK level 21
• Kotlin based + Coroutines for asynchronous.
• JetPack
  • Lifecycle - dispose of observing data when lifecycle state changes.
  • ViewModel - UI related data holder, lifecycle aware.
  • Room Persistence - construct a database using the abstract layer.
• Architecture
  • MVVM Architecture (View - DataBinding - ViewModel - Model)
  • Repository pattern
  • Koin - dependency injection.
• Retrofit2 & Gson - construct the REST APIs.
• OkHttp3 - implementing interceptor, logging and mocking web server.
• Sandwich - construct lightweight http API response and handling error responses.
• Glide - loading images.
• TransformationLayout - implementing transformation motion animations.
• WhatIf - checking nullable object and empty collections more fluently.
• AndroidVeil - easy way to implement veil skeletons and shimmering effect.
• DiscreteScrollView - implementing a scrollable list of items.
• Timber - logging.
• Material-Components - Material design components like ripple animation, cardView.

Unit Testing Frameworks

Unit Tests verify the interactions of viewmodels between repositories and dao & REST api requests.

• Robolectric - Robolectric is the industry-standard unit testing framework for Android.
• Mockito-Kotlin - a small library that provides helper functions to work with Mockito in Kotlin.

Architecture

MarvelHeroes is based on MVVM architecture and a repository pattern.

Content Credits

All copyrights of the contents, concepts, and phrases that are used in this open-source project belong to Marvel Studios.

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License

Designed and developed by 2020 skydoves (Jaewoong Eum)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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