BreweryDb project
##Libraries and APIs used
BreweryDb API - test application purposes only
Retrofit 2
Picasso - Image loading
Android Support Library (Design, AppCompat, CardView)
LikeButton by Joel Dean Alexander
To access the BreweryDb API, you'll need an API key. For security reasons, this API key has been excluded for this repository. The steps to build and run the application are:
Create a gradle.properties file in the root directory of Brewski.
In this file, add the below line, replacing <API_KEY> with your own:
breweryDbApiKey = "<API_KEY>"
This will be picked up in the app level build.gradle file as API_KEY, which will be accessed in code via BuildConfig.API_KEY
There is another branch, BottomNav, which I did not finish off. I was in the process of converting the current design to include a BottomNavigationView, Fragments for the content, and a ViewPager for swiping left and right.
The bones of this are in this branch, however I didn't have time to finish it off and clean it up (it just shows 3 of the same Fragments for all tabs when swiping, and doesn't change Fragments when the BottomNavigationView is used)
It's the first time I tried out the BottomNavigationView so it's a bit messy.
I had an issue with Picasso and loading images in the Recyclerview. If I ran through the full list, the memory usage would spike (and stay spiked) as they were kept in this view. I knew it was the images because it was fine when I removed them.
I was already using .fit() for the Adapter, but this didn't seem to help. Below was memory usage with .fit()
You can see here that it reached ~50MB for a simple Recyclerview - not good.
I swapped it with .resize(128,128) which reduced the memory use significantly - here's the usage from the same action
It would be better if the BreweryDb provided better images for Breweries and labels - there's a lot of whitespace on them but that can't be changed.
Some beers are also missing labels / Brewery information, so that's why the Query is so specific in the Retrofit service.