Aim

• To demonstrate the usage of Android Architecture Components

Latundan App

• Shows popular cities and food in the Philippines by fetching from the following endpoint:
  • https://api.npoint.io/7fa8344c8749d39e7cdc

Screenshots

Libraries Used

• Components
  • LiveData - Data holder class that is observed for DB changes
  • Navigation Component - Used to navigate between fragments (in this app, only 1 activity exists)
  • Room - For local data persistence
  • ViewModel - Stores UI related data
  • NetworkBoundResouce - Interface to fetch data from DB and the network
• Third Party/ Miscellaneous
  • Glide - For image loading
  • Hilt - For dependency injection
  • Kotlin Coroutines - For managing background threads for network/DB operations
  • Retrofit - HTTP Client used
  • Gson Converter - Used with Retrofit for JSON manipulation

Improvements

1. Pull to refresh/ Retry
   • Needed when app is opened for the first time and there is no Internet
   • Suggestion: Use Paging library