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Weather Forecast Android App

This repo shows a simple Model-View ViewModel Architecture with Use Cases to write decoupled, testalble and maintainable code.

Don't forget to see the unit test package HERE

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A View (Activity and Fragment) knows about the view-model but the view-model has no idea about the view. The view-model use independent use case components to collect all the necessary data.

Example

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App walkthrough

HomeActivity

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Add a city to database

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Use Places predictions for autocompletion

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When the user taps on the cloud he/she can see the hourly weather forecast for the next 5 days using the Local Weather API

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Dependencies

Library Use
androidx.lifecycle Lifecycle-aware components like ViewModel, LiveData etc
com.afollestad.material-dialogs fluid, and extensible dialogs API for Kotlin & Android
retrofit basic type-safe HTTP client for Android
gson basic serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back
androidx.room basic persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite
picasso basic image downloading and caching library for Android
places provides programmatic access to Google's database of local place and business information, as well as the device's current place
mockito basic mocking framework for unit tests