Countries

Hng9 Stage3 task. A responsive app consuming Countries API to display list of countries with their details.

Features

The application:

Download and install Android Studio if not installed
Download / clone this repository to a folder on your computer
Start Android Studio, open your source code folder and verify that Gradle build is going to be successful using Build.
If the build is successful, you can run the app by doing the following: click Run -> Run 'app'.
Connect your phone or create a new virtual device following on screen instruction
Enjoy the experience🎉

Countries app is build using:

Kotlin -modern statically typed programming language used to develop android applications.
Jetpack Compose - Android’s recommended, modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android.

Jetpack
- Datastore - data storage solution that allows you to store key-value pairs. Used in this app to store and retrive light and dark mode values
- Compose - A modern declarative way to build android ui
- Navigation Components - Android Jetpack's component for implementing navigation for consistent and predictable user experience in android app
Retrofit - Type-safe HTTP Client for consuming RESTful API web services in android
Coil - Kotlin-first image loading library for Android which uses Kotlin Coroutines behind the hood

User Interface design - App responsive experience was a challenge. Used Jetpack Compose to come up with responsive UI