Upcoming-Movies

Project 5: Android Kotlin Developer Udacity | Nanodegree

• The App Consumes https://www.themoviedb.org/ REST APIs to fetch upcoming movies and their details

Rationale

The App is inspired by The Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegree Course on Udacity. It's the final project of the Five projects in the course. I Chose to develop a custom app, so I can build everything from scratch. It's been fun.

Project Instructions

• The student will define their own project feature-set that meets criteria encompassing key areas of development skills covered within the nanodegree:
  • Application Architecture
  • UI and Layout
  • API Connectivity and Data Persistence
  • Hardware Integration
  • User-based Functionality

Feature Graphics

App ScreenShots

Implementation

Built with

• Kotlin

  Kotlin is a programming language that makes coding concise, cross-platform, and fun. It is Google's preferred language for Android app development.

• XML

  used to implement UI-related data

• Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Patch 1

• MVVM Architecture

  is a software architectural pattern that is commonly used in Android app development.

Tools and Libraries

• Retrofit

  A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.

• Room

  For data persistence

• Dagger Hilt

  a dependency injection library for Android that reduces the boilerplate of doing manual dependency injection in your project

• Repository Pattern

  Repositories combine different data sources and solve any potential conflicts between the data sources to update the single source of truth regularly or due to a user input event

• Data Binding

  is a support library that allows you to bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format rather than programmatically.

• Navigation Library

  a framework for navigating between 'destinations' within an Android application that provides a consistent API whether destinations are implemented as Fragments, Activities, or other components.

• SharedPreferences

  used for saving application settings, user preferences, or other small pieces of data that need to persist between app sessions.

• ViewModel

  lets you manage your UI's data in a lifecycle-aware fashion.

• LiveData

  an observable data holder class. Unlike a regular observable, LiveData is lifecycle-aware, meaning it respects the lifecycle of other app components, such as activities, fragments, or services.

• ListAdapter

• DiffUtil

  calculates the difference between two given lists, the old list that is currently displayed and the new that you have recently obtained.

• Notifications

• Sealed Result Class

  Result sealed class for kotlin error handling, allowing us to write safe code either in a functional or imperative format, without the use of exceptions.

• Binding Adapters

  responsible for making the appropriate framework calls to set values

• Work Manager

  The recommended API for background processing WorkManager is the recommended solution for persistent work. Work is persistent when it remains scheduled through app restarts and system reboots.

• MotionLayout

  MotionLayout is a layout type that helps you manage motion and widget animation in your app