LiveGreen

Introduction

LiveGreen is a mobile application that shows the carbon intensity of a particular country or zone based on the electricity consumed. It makes use of the CO2 Signal API

Tech stack

• Kotlin
• Android Studio
• Retrofit
• MVVM Architecture

Open Source Projects we used

• Retrofit

Project Setup

• Download and install the app on your android device

What we learned

• How to make use of Retrofit to retrieve data from a remote data source as well as using the API Key for Authentication
• How to make use of Repository and Factory software design patterns
• How to make use of Webview for displaying webpages
• How to get the longitude and latitude of a user's location

Challenges

• Not all regions are supported by the API
• Regions supported

What's next?

• Work on push notifications Issue#7
• Publishing on playstore
• Testing

Links

• Quick Demo

License

You can read the MIT License here