Android - Clean Architecture - Kotlin

The purpose of this repo is to follow up Clean Architecture principles by bringing them to Android. The repo contains a Sample News Application which shows current news from https://newsapi.org/ API.

Clean Architecture

Clean architecture promotes separation of concerns, making the code loosely coupled. This results in a more testable and flexible code. This approach divides the project into 3 modules: presentation, data, and domain.

• Presentation: Layer with the Android Framework, the MVVM pattern and the DI module. Depends on the domain to access the use cases and on di, to inject dependencies.
• Domain: Layer with the business logic. Contains the use cases, in charge of calling the correct repository or data member.
• Data: Layer with the responsibility of selecting the proper data source for the domain layer. It contains the implementations of the repositories declared in the domain layer. It may, for example, check if the data in a database is up to date, and retrieve it from service if it’s not.

Functionality

The app's functionality includes:

1. Fetch Current News data from https://newsapi.org/ & show them in RecylerView with smooth pagination.
2. When an item is selected from RecyclerView it will load the news article in a Webview.
3. From Details view , a news article can be added to Favorite news - which will store the News article in the Room database.
4. From Today's news section users can search for specific news topic & return the search results with pagination.
5. From favorite news section users can view all their saved news articles, they can also swipe left/right to delete the article from local database.

Architecture

The app uses clean architecture with MVVM(Model View View Model) design pattern. MVVM provides better separation of concern, easier testing, Live data & lifecycle awareness, etc.

UI

The UI consists of two parts

1. View - Activity screen, Host the navigation component fragments.

2. Fragment - Contains two fragments:

   a) FeedFragement - Show & search for today's news. Listen for onScrollListener using EndlessRecyclerOnScrollListener for Recylcerview.

   b) FavoriteFragment - Show saved news articles.

   c) DetailsFragment - Show webview with floating action button for loading & saving news article.

Model

Model is generated from JSON data into a Kotlin data class. In addition entity class has been added for room database along with Type converter for saving/retrieving custom object data.

ViewModel

MainViewModel.kt

Used for fetching today's news, searching news & update livedata. Also send out the status of the network call like Loading, Success, Error using sealed class.

The ViewModel also responsible for pagination of data using page count.

Dependency Injection

The app uses Dagger-hilt as a dependency injection library.

The ApplicationModule.kt class provides Singleton reference for Retrofit, OkHttpClient, Repository etc.

Network

The network layer is composed of Repository, ApiService. NewsApi - Is an interface containing the suspend functions for retrofit API call.

NewsRepository - Holds the definition of the remote/local repository call.

Building

In-order to successfully run & test the application you will need an api key.

Go to - https://newsapi.org/ and click Get Api Key

Now Go to - app/src/main/java/utils/Constants.kt

And replace

const val API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

You can open the project in Android studio and press run. Android Studio version used to build the project: Arctic fox 2020.3.1

Gradle plugin used in the project will require Java 11.0 to run.

you can set the gradle jdk in Preferences->Build Tools->Gradle->Gradle JDK

The project uses Kotin-Dsl build scripts to maintain dependencies & plugins.

Libraries used

1. Android appcompat, core, constraint layout, Material Support.
2. Android View Binding
3. Hilt for dependency injection
4. Retrofit for REST API communication
5. Coroutine for Network call
6. Lifecycle, ViewModel
7. LiveData
8. Room for local database.
9. Navigation Component for supporting navigation through the app.
10. GLide for image loading.
11. Swipe Refresh Layout for pull-to-refresh RecyclerView.
12. EndlessRecyclerOnScrollListener for Recylerview Infinite Scroll.
13. Mockito & Junit for Unit testing.
14. Robolectric for Instrumentation testing
15. Truth for Assertion in testing.
16. Espresso for UI testing.

Testing

Unit testing has been added for MainViewModel & NewsRepository.

MainViewModelTest.kt

Test the viewmodel of the app using CoroutineRule & LiveData Observer.

The test cases comprise of testing different states like Loading, Success, Error with fake data for testing News Response & Search Response.

NewsRepositoryTest.kt

Test the Repository of the app using Robolectric.

The test comprises of testing the functionality of Favorite News Room Database like Insertion, Remove, Get saved news etc.

Mock Webserver is used to test the Network api response in case of successful data, empty, failed case.

Sample app

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Rafsan Ahmad

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