Pinaki93/android-booksearch-exercise

Android app for searching books using the OpenLibrary api.

Book Search App

Android app that leverages the OpenLibrary API to search books and display cover images. This app is to be used as the base app for adding suggested extensions.

Overview

I've forked this repository in order to demonstrate refactoring of legacy code base into the latest used libraries + architectural patterns, right now.

I'll be adding more wiki as I integrate the Suggested Extensions and Milestones

The app does the following:

1. Fetch the books from the OpenLibrary Search API in JSON format
2. Deserialize the JSON data for each of the books into Book objects
3. Build an array of Book objects and notify the adapter to display the new data.
4. Define a view holder so the adapter can render each book model.

To achieve this, there are four different components in this app:

1. BookClient - Responsible for executing the API requests and retrieving the JSON
2. Book - Model object responsible for encapsulating the attributes for each individual book
3. BookAdapter - Responsible for mapping each Book to a particular view layout
4. BookListActivity - Responsible for fetching and deserializing the data and configuring the adapter

Suggested Extensions

• Use SearchView to search for books with a title
• Show ProgressBar before each network request
• Add a detail view to display more information about the selected book from the list
• Use a share intent to recommend a book to friends

Milestones

• Add Retrofit
• Add Data Binding
• Add RxJava
• Add Dagger
• Update to Material Design 2.0