Weather App – TopUp Mama mobile assessment.

A weather application that displays the current weather.

Tech stack and Libraries

Architecture
- MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel)
- Repository pattern
Architecture components
- WorkManager – Schedule background work that’s deferrable and requires guaranteed execution.
- Lifecycles – Create a UI that automatically responds to lifecycle events.
- LiveData – Build data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
- ViewModel – Store UI-related data that isn’t destroyed on app rotations. Easily schedule asynchronous tasks for optimal execution.
Third party libraries
- Retrofit – a type-safe REST client for Android
- Moshi – for parsing JSON into Java objects.
- Room – for persisting data locally.
- Kotlin Coroutines – for managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks.
- Timber – a logging library for Android
API
- Uses AccuWeather APIs to get weather data.