GitFlame

Yet another open-source GitHub client app built from scratch using latest and best Android practices.

Tech stack & Open-source libraries

Minimum SDK level 21
Kotlin based, Coroutines + Flow for asynchronous.
Hilt for dependency injection.
Jetpack
- Lifecycle – dispose of observing data when lifecycle state changes.
- ViewModel – UI related data holder, lifecycle aware.
- Room Persistence – construct the database using the abstract layer.
Architecture
- MVVM Architecture (View – DataBinding – ViewModel – Model)
- Android DataBinding kit for notifying data changes to UI layers.
- Repository pattern
Retrofit2 & OkHttp3 – construct the REST APIs.
Moshi – A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.
Glide, GlidePalette – loading images.
TransformationLayout – implementing transformation motion animations.
Timber – A logger with a small, extensible API.
Material-Components – Material design components for building ripple animation, and CardView.