Spacex Launches

Spacex Launches is a sample app demonstrating the use of Hilt, Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack (ViewModel), Material design and MVVM architecture with a very easy to use API and an easy to understand code

Build tools & versions used

• Minimum SDK level 24
• Jetpack
  • Lifecycle - Observe Android lifecycles and handle UI states upon the lifecycle changes.
  • ViewModel - Manages UI-related data holder and lifecycle aware. Allows data to survive configuration changes such as screen rotations.
  • Room Persistence - Constructs Database by providing an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access.
• Architecture
  • MVVM Architecture (Model- View - ViewModel)
  • Repository Pattern
• Kotlin 1.4 based, Coroutines + Flow for asynchronous.
• Hilt 2.42 for dependency injection.
• Retrofit2 & OkHttp3 - Construct the REST APIs.
• Sandwich 1.2.6 - Construct a lightweight and modern response interface to handle network payload for Android.
• Moshi 1.13.0 - A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.
• Picasso 2.71828 - Loading images from network.
• Material-Components 1.6.1 - Material design components.
• Turbine 0.8.0 - A small testing library for kotlinx.coroutines Flow.

Steps to run the app

1. Clone the repository in your computer.
2. Run the app as usual.