ProjectX

Android App using The Movie DB API

Description

a simple app that contains some basic functionality. It connects to the Movies DB API and fetch current popular TV shows on TMDb.

Tech Stack

• Dagger 2 - Used to provide dependency injection
• Retrofit 2 - OkHttp3 - request/response API
• Glide - for image loading.
• RxJava 2 - reactive programming paradigm
• LiveData - use LiveData to see UI update with data changes.
• Data Binding - bind UI components in layouts to data sources

Overview of app arch.

• follow the rules from Architecture guidelines recommended by Google.
• keep Activity only responsible for UI related code
• ViewModel provides data required by the UI class
• Repository layer provides data to ViewModel classes. (single source of truth)

Unit testing and Application Arch.

. ViewModel and ViewStates classes should be tested.

• PopularTvShowsTestSuite

ViewModel

need to make sure that the correct state changes occur at the right time during remote data request.

• PopularTVShowsViewModelTest

ViewState

ViewStates are responsible for reporting changes to the UI.

• PopularTVShowsFeedItemViewStateTest
• PopularTVShowsFeedViewStateTest

TODO for near future

• implement local storage example
• implement coroutines example