One of the most difficult tasks when doing an application is preparing it to work offline. In many cases we just cache the data and it is presented as an offline mode, but this is not the case we are proposing.
Using only components present in the Android framework we tried to create a showcase where you can create/delete posts and create/delete comments in an application.
This example also contains an online mode where it just does not cache anything (nor reads nor writes).
This sample does not implement a presenter patter just because it is simple enough to add more complexity, but it is perfectly compatible with MVP.
Loaders are present in the Android SDK since honeycomb but they are not so widely spread
as other components are. They fit really well with the observer pattern based in notifications
from LocalBroadcastManager and the job scheduler (or a similar library).
The flow basically goes from an activity to the repository which notifies accordingly the loader to reload the data. This way the synchronization is easier, as well as the complete data flow. Please have a look to the code for more details or the presentation done in the Droidcon Spain '16.
Preconditions: Make sure you have node.js installed and in your command line available
cd server
sh start.sh
Copy your local IP address into the build.gradle of the application and run the app.
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