SP-Album-Task
Scottish power
Description
- This is a simple application that retrieves a list of Album titles from a remote data source, stores them in a local database, and displays the sorted list based on the titles.
Libraries used
- Retrofit - Retrofit as a REST Client library
- Gson - Gson converter as a Retrofit response mapping library
- Hilt - Dependency injection
Android components
- RecyclerView - Used to list the Albums.
- Constraint layout - Simple, flat hierarchies in a layout.
- Coroutines – For Asynchronous or non-blocking programming
- Data binding – To bind the data with the UI and to improve the performance, prevent memory leaks and null pointer exceptions.
Android Architecture Components (Android Jetpack)
- ViewModel - Allows data to survive configuration changes such as screen rotations.
- LiveData - Lifecycle-aware data holder class to respects the lifecycle Fragments.
- AndroidX - Complete project implemented using AndroidX libraries.
- Room database for data persistence.
Design
- The application is based on MVVM design pattern.
Further enhancements
- Handle configuration changes
- Api error handling
- Progress bar to show loading while fetching the data from the API
- Improving the data source fetch using Paging
- Furthermore cosmetics and refactoring is an endless thought.
- Navigation component
Snapshots
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With Internet
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Without Internet and saved data in DB
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1 Dec 9, 2021
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