Booking App
This app is built to demonstrate the modern design of an Android application
About
We load Rooms data from API and store it in a Room database (persistence storage)
The Rooms are always loaded from a local database. Remote and local data is always synchronised
The app is offline-capable
The app supports a dark theme
The API used in this app is statically hosted here https://novuyo.deeplytix.net/novuyo/all
Tools
The application is built using the following tools
Kotlin – Official programming language for Android development
Gradle Kotlin DSL – By default, uses Gradle build system with Kotlin DSL
Android Architecture Components – Android Architecture Components are a part of Android Jetpack
- LiveData – Notify views of any database changes.
- Navigation – Handle everything needed for in-app navigation.
- ViewModel – Manage UI-related data in a lifecycle conscious way.
- ViewBinding -Declaratively bind UI elements in our layout to data sources of our app.
- Room -Fluent SQLite database access.
Coroutines – A very efficient and complete framework to manage concurrency in a more performant and simple way
Flow – A better way to handle the stream of data asynchronously that executes sequentially.
Retrofit – Android Networking library that reduces a lot of Boilerplate code and helps in consuming the web service easily
Moshi – JSON library for Android
Moshi Converter – A Converter that uses Moshi for serialization to and from JSON.
Coil-kt – An image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines
Material Components for Android – Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android
Architecture
This app uses Model View View-Mode ( MVVM ) architecture