annshsingh / dine-in

This app was designed and developed for users to find best restaurants to dine at.

Dine In

This app was designed and developed for the users as a one stop guide to find best restaurants to dine at.

App Screenshots

App Features

Following are the features one can find on the app -

• List of all the popular venues nearby
• Useful information regarding a perticular venue like -
  • Address of the venue.
  • Ability to open Google Maps to help the user navigate to the venue.
  • Category of the venue
  • Mark the venue as not interested
  • Get more information of the venue like (if provided by the venue owner) -
    • Description of the venue
    • Phone number (click on this to call the venue)
    • Operating hours
    • Option to visit the venue on Foursquare for more details

Technologies used

Following are the technologies used to design and develop the Dine In application -

• Language - Kotlin
• Architecture - MVVM
• Reactive Framework - RxJava2
• Async Operations - Coroutines
• Dependency Injection - Dagger2
• Networking - Retrofit
• Image loading - Picasso
• Android Architecture Components - ViewModel, Room and Paging libraries
• Migrated to AndroidX

3rd party library

Following is a list of all the 3rd party library used in the project -

• Paper OnBoarding by Ramotion (Link)
• RxPermissions by Thomas Bruyelle (Link)
• Retrofit by Square (Link)
• Picasso by Square (Link)

API Reference

Following Foursquare APIs were used in the project -

• Explore API (Regular) to fetch a list of nearby venues - Link
• Venue Details API (Premium) to fetch additional details of a venue - Link
• Click here for all API End point references
• NOTE - Account used is a Sandbox Account with following restrictions
  • 950 Regular Calls / Day
  • 50 Premium Calls / Day
  • 1 Photo per Venue
  • 1 Tip per Venue

Created by

Annsh Singh (LinkedIn) (Play Store) (Twitter)