TAT - Android

An App for Taipei Tech Student.

Libaries Used

List of libraries that are planned to use.

Kotlin
- Android KTX - A set of Kotlin extensions that is part of the Android Jetpack family. It optimizes Jetpack and Android platform APIs for Kotlin use.
- Kotlin Coroutines for managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks
- Anko - A Kotlin library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read, and lets you forget about rough edges of the Android SDK for Java.
  - Anko Commons - A lightweight library full of helpers for intents, dialogs, logging and so on.
  - Anko Coroutine - Utilities based on the kotlinx.coroutines library.
Andriod Jetpack
- Architecture - A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps. Start with classes for managing your UI component lifecycle and handling data persistence.
  - Data Binding - Declaratively bind observable data to UI elements.
  - Lifecycles - Create a UI that automatically responds to lifecycle events.
  - LiveData - Build data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
  - Navigation - Handle everything needed for in-app navigation.
  - Paging - Gradually load information on demand from your data source.
  - Room - Access your app's SQLite database with in-app objects and compile-time checks.
  - ViewModel - Store UI-related data that isn't destroyed on app rotations. Easily schedule asynchronous tasks for optimal execution.
  - WorkManager - Manage your Android background jobs.
- Behavior - Behavior components help your app integrate with standard Android services like notifications, permissions, sharing and the Assistant.
  - Preferences - Create interactive settings screens.
Third party
- Glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
- Leak Canary - A memory leak detection library for Android and Java.
- EasyPermissions - A wrapper library to simplify basic system permissions logic when targeting Android M or higher.

Contributing to the project

Issues

Feel free to submit issues requests.

Contributing

We follow the GitHub flow, be free to contribute for this project.

Fork the repo on GitHub
Clone the project to your own machine
Commit changes to your own branch
Push your work back up to your fork
Submit a Pull request so that we can review your changes

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!

Contributor

Wei-Chen Yao