PixarBay Application

An Android app consuming the Pixabay API to display Images. It is built using the Repository and MVVM patterns as well as Architecture Components.

Min Api Level : 21 Supports over 87% devices

Build System : Gradle

Table of contents

• Prerequisite
• Testing
• Libraries

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Prerequisite

After cloning the repo, visit Pixabay and get an api key. Create a file apikey.properties and save the api key in it like so.

API_KEY="#########################"

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Testing

Work In Progresss 🚧

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Libraries

• Jetpack🚀

  • ViewModel - Manage UI related data in a lifecycle conscious way and act as a channel between the repository and the ui
  • ViewBinding - support library that allows binding of UI views by providing a binding class that contains direct references to all views that have an ID in the corresponding layout.
  • Room - Provides abstraction layer over SQLite
  • LiveData - a life-cycle aware observable data holder class

• Coroutines - a concurrency design pattern that you can use on Android to simplify code that executes asynchronously

• Flow - a type that can emit multiple values sequentially, as opposed to suspend functions that return only a single value.

• Retrofit - type safe http client and supports coroutines out of the box.

• Gson - A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.

• ok-http-logging-interceptor - intercepts the request and adds the api key

• Glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling

• Dagger-Hilt - Lightweight dependency injection library for android.

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