Almost all modern mobile consumer apps are constructed from the same 4 components

🤡 Why?

Almost all modern mobile consumer apps are constructed from the same 4 components.

1. A component to communicate to the backend server
2. A way to organize the flow (screen A opens screen B etc.)
3. Something to store temporary data (i.e. collecting data from the user to send it later to the backend)
4. A component that helps to easily test the app

This app combines all the above components so that it can be used as a default template to build simple consumer apps. There will be separate tutorials to explain each of the 4 components and the general architecture of the app.

🚀 Quick start

1. Build (debug)

   ./gradlew assembleDebug

2. Build (release)

   ./gradlew assembleRelease

3. Copy the Build to the device

   adb push app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk /data/local/tmp

4. Install the Build Apps that are installed from the Play store have installer name equal to com.android.vending

   PackageManager packageManager = getPackageManager(); String installerName = packageManager.getInstallerPackageName(getPackageName()); if (installerName != null) { if (installerName.equals("com.android.vending")) { mHasGooglePlay = true; } }

   To simulate it we can use the following trick:

   adb shell pm install -i com.android.vending /data/local/tmp/app-release.apk