MusicWiki

Introduction

MusicWiki is an unofficial Last.fm app that contains information about different music genres, the albums, artists and tracks listed under the genre.

Tech Stacks

• Languages

  • Kotlin
  • Java

• Android Architectural Pattern

  • Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
  • Android Jetpack Components
  • ViewModel and UI Controllers

• UI

  • XML
  • Material Design

• API

  • last.fm -> https://www.last.fm/api
  • Retrofit + Moshi (for making network(HTTP) calls)

• Other

  • Picasso -> For Image Loading
  • EventBus -> For Communicating Between Fragments

Features Implemented

• Different Genres of Music available to search information for.
• Albums, Artists and Tracks Related to every genre is available.
• Information regarding every Artist can be found out in the application.
• Top Artists, Top Tracks and Top Albums are available wrt each genre.

Some Important Points

• The UI of the application can definitely get more improved, but I rather decided to spend more time on the Code Structure and Architecture so that it is Scalable and Maintanable.
• Didn’t focused much on the UI, as at some places, the alignment of the views are not proper.
• Just have tried to replicate the UI provided in the assignment.

App UI

• Home Screen (where Top 10 genres are available (collapsed))

• Home Screen (Expanded Genres List)

• Genre Detail Screen (With Rock Genre Selected)

• Album Detail Screen

• Artist Detail Screen

• Top Tracks and Top Artists

• Amaan Ur Rahman

GitHub

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