Technical test project

My Smart Home

An app that lets the user control their connected devices.

Technical Stack and Libraries Used

• MVVM Architecture
• AndroidX
• Android KTX
• Navigation
• View Binding
• Lifecycles - To create a UI that automatically responds to lifecycle events.
• LiveData - Build data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
• ViewModel - To store UI-related data that isn't destroyed on app configuration changes.
• Room - Local database.
• Hilt: - For dependency injection
• Kotlin Coroutines - For managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks
• Preferences DataStore - To store simple data. "DataStore uses Kotlin coroutines and Flow to store data asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally."
• RxKotlin/RxJava - In this project I've used it to handle the call to the remote data. But I could've used Coroutines Flow for more consistency in the entire project.
• Retrofit - REST client for web services calls.
• Moshi - JSON library to parse remote data.
• MockK - Mocking library for easier and more readable tests.
• Lottie - Animations library.
• LeakCanary - A memory leak detection library.