DevStories Africa App

This app is for sharing updates on upcoming events, previous events and call for story tellers i.e developer, data scientist, networking guru, IoT specialist, cybersecurity specialist who would like to share their stories in our events held every two weeks.

DevStories Africa is a community that believe that every developer’s journey is unique and that sharing your journey can inspire other developers for the better.

Built With

• Kotlin - Kotlin is a programming language that can run on JVM. Google has announced Kotlin as one of its officially supported programming languages in Android Studio; and the Android community is migrating at a pace from Java to Kotlin.
• Lifecycle - Perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
• Viewmodel -The ViewModel class is designed to store and manage UI-related data in a lifecycle conscious way
• LiveData - A lifecycle-aware data holder with the observer pattern
• Kotlin Coroutines - A concurrency design pattern that you can use on Android to simplify code that executes asynchronously.
• View Binding - Allows you to bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format rather than programmatically.
• Retrofit - Retrofit is a REST Client for Java and Android by Square inc under Apache 2.0 license. Its a simple network library that used for network transactions. By using this library we can seamlessly capture JSON response from web service/web API.
• GSON - JSON Parser,used to parse requests on the data layer for Entities and understands Kotlin non-nullable and default parameters.
• Hilt - A dependency injection library for Android that reduces the boilerplate of doing manual dependency injection in your project
• Navigation Components - Helps you implement navigation, from simple button clicks to more complex patterns, such as app bars and the navigation drawer.
• Logging Interceptor - logs HTTP request and response data.
• GitHub Actions - GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
• Glide- An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To get this project up and running locally, you must already have Android Studio plus the necessary gems installed on your computer

simple steps set up on your local machine

- $ git clone `$ git clone https://github.com/DevStoriesAfrica/DevStories-app`
- $ git checkout master
- $ cd DevStories-app

Community

👤 DevStories Africa

• Github: DevStoriesAfrica
• Twitter: @devstoriesafric
• LinkedIn: developerstoriesafrica
• Join our Slack Workspace

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are always welcome!

We love meeting other developers, especially ones that give others advice on how to improve their work.

Feel free to check the issues page.

How to Contribute

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

- Fork the repository
- $ git clone https://github.com/your_username/DevStories-app
- $ cd DevStories-app
- $ git checkout master
- $ git checkout -b branch name
- $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/DevStoriesAfrica/DevStories-app
- $ git pull upstream master
- $ git commit -m "commit message"
- $ git push -u origin HEAD

• Check here for more Contribution Guidelines & Code of Conduct

Show your support

Finally, if you've read this far, don't forget to give this repo a ⭐️ . They're free . . . I think. Also you can support & sponsor our community events/actities.

Acknowledgments

• We hereby acknowledge DevStories Team for the project idea and Breens who designed the DevStories App

📝 License

MIT LICENSE