aad-team-45-animation-challenge

Introduction.

aad-team-45-animation-challenge is an ebook recommender android app that displays list of ebook on various IT fields base on a user preference. Users can add a book to his favourite list.

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Functionality

The app consist of a Splash screen, ItTopicsFragment, listOfEbooksFragment and an EbookDetailsFragment.

ItTopicsFragment

This fragment displays some common core topics in programming.

ListOfEbooksFragment

This fragment displays the list of ebooks base on The topics the user selects from the ItTopicsFragment.

EbookDetailsFragment

This fragment displays the details of a book selected by the user.

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Structure

This app use MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern using Google's lifecycle Architecture components LiveData, ViewModel, Room, Databinding

Component interaction

The source of data is either from BookService or from our Database. Using MVVM we have various sections which are reflected by the packages.

• View:

  Activity/Fragment in the ui package.

• Model:

  consist of the files in the following packages: repository, api, db. The app is meant to work offline too, using a NetworkBoundResource file which checks if we have local data else retrieve them from BookService.

• ViewModel:

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Libraries

• Android Architecture Components
• Android Data Binding
• Dagger 2 for dependency injection
• Retrofit for REST api communication]
• Glide for image loading
• espresso for UI tests