android-testapp

TestApp for Android attempting best practices and such

Short-term Goals

• Use some standard libraries to bring my Android skills up to speed
  • JSON - Jackson
  • REST API - Retrofit
  • Images - Picasso
  • Http - OkHTTP
  • Reactive programming - RxJava/RxAndroid
  • Lambdas - Retrolambda
  • Android components:
    • Recycler view
      • Decent list adapter
      • SQLite cursor adapter
• Target latest APIs (currently 22) ubt port backwards to API 16
  • JellyBean (16, 17, 18), KitKat (19), Lollipop (21)
  • Target phones and tablets
  • see https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
• Material design
  • define all layouts
  • layouts - generic view agnostic layouts
  • layouts-port - portrait layout for devices under 7"
  • layouts-land - landscape layouts for devices under 7"
  • layouts-port-sw620 - portrait layouts for 7"+
  • layouts-land-sw620 - landscape layouts for 7"+
• Look for a way to persist pojos to sqlite with audit columns - id, insert_user/insert_date, update_user/update_date

Long-term Goals

• OpenID log in services
  • Email + password
  • Email only
  • Google+
  • Facebook
  • Twitter (see https://get.fabric.io/)
  • Digits (see https://get.fabric.io/)

Web services

• placehold.it
• jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
• apiary.io
• https://app.apiary.io/fuhoitestapp/editor

Resources

• Android Developer Dashboard (https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html)

Articles

• https://android-arsenal.com/details/3/1091
• http://saulmm.github.io/2015/02/02/A%20useful%20stack%20on%20android%20%231,%20architecture/
  • https://github.com/saulmm/Material-Movies

Tools

• GitHub for Windows
• GitHub
• Android Studio
• MarkDownPad2
• GenyMotion - emulator - https://www.genymotion.com/