OpenTable Challenge
This project is an implementation of the specs required by the OpenTable challenge criteria. The app requires Android 5.1 and above.
Getting Started
- Clone the Github repo.
- Open the project in Android Studio.
- Build and run the project.
Goals
- Demonstrate a good understanding of software architecture and tooling that are important in maintaining a modern codebase.
- Demonstrate create logical seperation between a reusable base module and more granular feature modules. This structure paves the way to have more cross-team development and converting the app into an Instant app.
- Using Kotlin to write more succinct and readable code.
- Use dependency injection with Dagger 2 to produce decoupled modules and services. Relying on Dagger-Android to avoid writing boilerplate code.
- Use MVVM to separate responsibilities from the view and create more easily testable classes.
- Use Architecture Components as a baseline for introducing Android best practices.
- Sensible package and module organization.
- Demonstrate the use of community supported Android libraries for scalable codebases.
- Error handling to create better UX for predictable conditions.
- Handle an array of device definitions.
- Using Git flow to create a readable git history for product owners.
Features
- Displays a list of movie reviews from NYT movie reviews API
- Displays movie review headline, title, byline, multimedia, and publication date.
- Support phone and tablet device definitions
TODOs
- The scroll position can be saved when rotated.
- Add testing to ensure integrity of being handle different edge cases.
Third Party Libraries
- Picasso is used to load and cache images from the network.
- Architecture Components LiveModel is used to have a lifecycle aware (and safe) place to hold data as well as convenient for writing a CLEAN architecture.
- RxJava 2 is used to provide a reactive stream method of presenting of data. It is easier to handle and manipulate different transactions.
- Retrofit is a great network abstraction library to convert JSON to POJO classes.
- Dagger 2 is used to reduce boilerplate and create testable services and components.
- Timber for more powerful logging.
Screenshots
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| Phone Horizontal | Phone Vertical | Tablet Vertical |