Mobile App Development 1: Assignment 2

This is a Kotlin-based weather app for Android.

Notable Features

Display weather warnings from Met Éireann
Display most recent conditions reported by Met Éireann's 25 weather observation stations
Display a weather forecast for a specified location using data from the Meteorologisk institutt (met.no)
Save and load a list of locations to/from a JSON file
MapBox maps to view and choose locations (User location permission can be granted if desired)
The option to add observation stations as saved locations or just view a weather forecast for that area
Automated testing, linting and APK building using GitHub actions

Android / Material Design Notable Features

Use of multiple Material design components / Material Design-themed standard components
- MaterialTextView
- Switch
- ActionBar
- SnackBar
- SwipeRefreshLayout
- FloatingActionButton
- MaterialButton
Use of Material Design icons
Theme, fonts and colors are all based on the Material Design guilelines
Dark mode is supported
Launcher icon is adaptive and will work with any configured icon shape
Background intents / services are used to request data from the various APIs

Development

In order to setup a development environment, you must add the following Gradle properties. These can be added to either the project gradle.properties file or the global gradle.properties file.

MAPBOX_DOWNLOADS_TOKEN=sk.xxxxxxxxxx
MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN="pk.xxxxxxxxxx";

For more details on where to get the required tokens, see the MapBox Android Installation Guide.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Dylan Gore}

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💻 🚧 🤔 📆

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Branches

main - Main branch
development - Development branch

Attribution

Material Design Icons

References

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