MyFavDishApp

Date Developed : 29/01/2022

Date Last Modified : 18/03/2022

Developer FullName : Seotsa Abram Makaota

Project Name : My Fav Dish App

Project Purpose

To learn how to use the Android Jetpack suite and Coroutines, using Room, Palette, MVVM, Retrofit, Navigation and WorkManager. This has allowed me not only to learn new features of Android but also make sure that my code is up to date, clean, uses best practices, and is easily maintainable. A must for any developer who wants to call himself a senior developer.

About the app

It's a Favorite Dishes Database Application that uses an API to get cool random dishes that we can cook and of course also stores dishes on the device using the ROOM Database to perform CRUD Operations

Features

This app represent Splash Activity, Main Activity, AddUpdate Activity and four feature fragment views

1. All Dishes Fragment,
2. Dish Details Fragment,
3. Favorite Dishes Fragment,
4. Random Dishes Fragment,

SPLASH ACTIVITY

The splash animation is shown every time the app is opened

MAIN ACTIVITY

This Activity is used to hold all of our fragment views and also to hide and show the bottom navigation view and also to perform android notifications to the user of this app

ADD UPDATE ACTIVITY

This Activity let's the user to add or update the dish details inside the database dish details include: 1 Dish Image 2 Dish Title 3 Dish Category 4 Dish Ingredients 5 Dish Cooking Time 6 Dish Directions to cook

1. ALL DISHES FRAGMENT

This Fragment let the user to filter added dishes using a filter menu of our dishes and also let the to add dishes using the add/plus menu icon that opens the ADD UPDATE ACTIVITY This Fragment also presents to the user a list of added dishes to our/local devices database each list is populated with a popup menu that lets the user to edit or delete the dish This Fragment uses navigation graphs to navigate to DISH DETAILS FRAGMENT to display dish details added to the database

2. DISH DETAILS FRAGMENT

This Fragments displays the dish details to the user also let's the user to share the dish using share icon menu the user can choose to favorite/un-favorite the dish using heart icon if the user favorites the dish it will be displayed to the FAVORITE DISHES FRAGMENT This Fragment uses android palette to colorize the layout

3. FAVORITE DISHES FRAGMENT

This Fragment displays a list of all favorites dishes that when clicked navigates back to the DISH DETAILS FRAGMENT

4. RANDOM DISH FRAGMENT

This Fragment uses spoonacular API to display random dishes to the user using our own dish details information, Uses Internet This Fragment also uses swipe to refresh to call the API for new random dish and the user can also choose to favorite the dish which will be added to the local database AND will be displayed inside the ALL DISHES FRAGMENT and FAVORITE DISHES FRAGMENT

Libraries used

• SDP - A scalable size unit library
  https://github.com/intuit/sdp implementation 'com.intuit.sdp:sdp-android:1.0.6'

• Dexter runtime permissions library
  https://github.com/Karumi/Dexter implementation 'com.karumi:dexter:6.2.3'

• Image loading library
  For more detail visit the link: https://github.com/bumptech/glide implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.13.0'
  annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.13.0'

• Room components
  Reference Link: https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/room def room_version = "2.4.2"
  implementation "androidx.room:room-ktx:$room_version"
  To use Kotlin annotation processing tool (kapt)
  kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"
  implementation 'androidx.palette:palette-ktx:1.0.0'

• Retrofit
  implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.9.0'
  implementation "com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.9.0"
  implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava3:2.9.0'

• RxJava
  implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava3:rxandroid:3.0.0'
  implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava3:rxjava:3.0.0'

• WorkManager
  def work_version = "2.7.1"
  Kotlin + coroutines
  implementation("androidx.work:work-runtime-ktx:$work_version")

What I have learned

• Android Jetpack suite
• ViewBinding and Animation(Splash Screen)
• MVVM (Model View ViewModel)
• Permissions
• Glide
• ROOM Database and CRUD Operations
• Coroutines, LiveData, Lifecycles and ViewModels
• Navigation Component, Navigation Graph, Safe Args
• Android Palette
• Retrofit and RxJava
• WorkManager, Sharing and Notifications