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Claw for Lobsters

A little personal project to play around with different Android libraries and what not. Connects to Lobste.rs, a news site

Structure

Played around with a modular architecture, although for now there is a low number of features, and only two real library modules (:core, :lib-lobsters)

In any case, the structure as of the beginning of October 2019 is:

     +--> :feature-front-page
     |                   |
     |                   V       +---> :lib-lobsters (api)
:app +----------------> :core ---|
     |                   ^       +---> :lib-navigation (api)
     |                   |       
     +--> :feature-comments

Where :app is pretty much empty except for the manifest, features contain Conductor controllers, :core contains Android pieces that are useful in all (both) features, :lib-lobsters contains the access to the website (cached in a database), and :lib-navigation really doesn't do much besides put all the reflection needed for modular navigation in one place

Libraries/technologies used

Hopefully I remembered them all

• Kotlin
• Coroutines
• Conductor
• SQLDelight
• Retrofit
• Leak Canary
• Material Components
• Gradle w/ Kotlin Script and buildSrc module
• Dagger 2
• Paging Architecture Component
• Coil
• Chrome custom tabs

Future plans

• Night mode
• Better comment rendering (HtmlCompat.fromHtml(...) is really inadequate) (URLSpan has been replaced) (Custom rendering with jsoup and spans)
• Settings page
• Github releases, maybe
• Feature to see profile pages