Nagar

A sample Android app using Kotlin, Lifecycle Components, ViewModel, LiveData, Room and Dagger 2

The app downloads a paginated list of cities from an API, caches the results to an SQLite db and displays the results using Android Architecture Components to the UI.

Decisions:

• Language - Kotlin. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.html
• Architecture - MVVM. This was the go to choice as the Android Architecture components best fit in it.
• Dependency Injection - Dagger 2. DI makes it easy to reuse our RoomDatabase, api interfaces, preferences and other components.
• Networking - Retrofit. Makes usage of Rest APIs easy and highly extensible.

Build environment:

• Android Studio - AS 3.0 Beta 1/2
• buildToolsVersion - 26.0.0
• minSdkVersion - 15

Libraries used:

• Android Architecture Components
• Dagger 2
• Retrofit
• OkHttp
• Stetho