Shelter

Shelter is a real estate app that is used for finding rent and sale houses. It is also a community blog for peole living in the same area to connect with one another.

Try out this app

The app is almost finshed now. Once it's finished, a link to the Google Play Store will be posted. For now, you can clone it and use Android Studio to run this app

Tech stack & libraries

Minimum SDK level 21
Written in Kotlin
Architecture
- MVI Architecture (Model - View - Intent)
- Repository pattern
Coroutines + Flow for asynchronous.
Hilt - A new library built on top of Dagger for dependency injection
Retrofit2 - Pull data from network to build paging data
Room - Cache data from network to optimize API calls
Paging 3.0 (alpha) - Paging system to manage data flow.
Gson - A JSON serialize & deserialize library
Glide - loading images.
UI
- DataBinding - bind UI components in layouts to data sources
- TransformationLayout - implementing transformation motion animations.
- Material-Components - Material design components like ripple animation, cardView.
- Navigation-Components - A new way to navigate in Android Jetpack
- Image-Slider - Image slider (Carousel) for android.
- Shimmering-Loading-Effects - A popular loading effects used by many apps

Architecture & Design Pattern

Shelter is based on MVI architecture with repository pattern. (MVI is a more organized version of MVVM)

API

Shelter using the RealtorAPI for constructing RESTful API.
Shelter also using Firebase for building a community blog.

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License

Copyright 2020 dtnguyn (Adron Nguyen)

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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 
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