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"Clean" Refactor Notes

In July 2021 I did a major refactor. Here's what I did:

  1. Migrate from Dagger to Hilt.
  2. Update Navigation Component.
  3. Decoupling.
    • Avoid sharing viewmodels. It makes unit testing easier when I can test fragments in isolation.
  4. Splitting business models into Entities and Dto's. This way I have a clear business model, network model, and caching model.
  5. Writing use cases.
    • Unidirectional data flow with MVI and kotlin sealed classes. (See Interactors)
  6. Refactor message handling system to a Queue.
  7. Migrate from Shared Preferences to DataStore.
  8. Migrate from Kotlin synthetics to ViewBinding.
  9. Write Unit tests for use-cases.

TODO

  1. Check out the new splash screen APIs
  2. Do a Compose refactor
    • I will create a new repo for this

Test Account

email: blake@tabian.ca

password: password


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Prerequisites (Recommended not required):

  1. Dagger 2

  2. MVI Architecture

  3. Database Caching (Retrofit + Room)


What you'll learn:

  • Kotlin:
  • Coroutines:
    1. Advanced coroutine management using jobs
    2. Cancelling active jobs
    3. Coroutine scoping
  • Navigation Components:
    1. Bottom Navigation View with fragments
    2. Leveraging multiple navigation graphs (this is cutting edge content)
  • Dagger 2:
    1. custom scopes, fragment injection, activity injection, Viewmodel injection
  • MVI architecture:
    1. Basically this is MVVM with some additions
    2. State management
    3. Building a generic BaseViewModel
    4. Repository pattern (NetworkBoundResource)
  • Room Persistence:
    1. SQLite on Android with Room Persistence library
    2. Custom queries, inserts, deletes, updates
    3. Foreign Key relationships
    4. Multiple database tables
  • Cache:
    1. Database caching (saving data from network into local cache)
    2. Single source of truth principal
  • Retrofit 2:
    1. Handling any type of response from server (success, error, none, etc...)
    2. Returning LiveData from Retrofit calls (Retrofit Call Adapter)
  • ViewModels:
    1. Sharing a ViewModel between several fragments
    2. Building a powerful generic BaseViewModel
  • WebViews:
    1. Interacting with the server through a webview (Javascript)
  • SearchView:
    1. Programmatically implement a SearchView
    2. Execute search queries to network and db cache
  • Images:
    1. Selecting images from phone memory
    2. Cropping images to a specific aspect ratio
    3. Setting limitations on image size and aspect ratio
    4. Uploading a cropped image to server
  • Network Request Management:
    1. Cancelling pending network requests (Kotlin coroutines)
    2. Testing for network delays
  • Pagination:
    1. Paginating objects returned from server and database cache
  • Material Design:
    1. Bottom Navigation View with Fragments
    2. Customizing Bottom Navigation Icon behavior
    3. Handling Different Screen Sizes (ConstraintLayout)
    4. Material Dialogs
    5. Fragment transition animations

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