/WeatherApp

Primary LanguageKotlin

WeatherApp

WeatherApp is an Android application built using Kotlin for a smooth and efficient development experience. The app provides weather information and includes a counter that tracks how many times the app goes to the background and comes back to the foreground.

Architecture

This application follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture pattern. This design pattern separates the app into three main components:

  • Model: Represents the data layer, including data sources and business logic.
  • View: Handles the UI elements and displays data to the user using traditional Android Views.
  • ViewModel: Manages the UI-related data in a lifecycle-conscious way, providing data to the View and handling user interactions.

Libraries Used

  • Kotlin: The programming language used for writing the app.
  • Room: A database library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
  • Android Navigation: A framework that simplifies implementing navigation within an Android app, providing a consistent and predictable way to navigate between different screens.
  • Dagger Hilt: A dependency injection library that simplifies the process of injecting dependencies in Android applications, built on top of Dagger.
  • Retrofit: A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java, used for making network requests and handling responses.
  • Gson: A library for converting Java objects to JSON and vice versa, used for JSON serialization and deserialization.
  • Glide: An image loading and caching library for Android that helps with efficient image loading.
  • LiveData: A lifecycle-aware data holder class used to observe data changes and update the UI accordingly.

Setup and Installation

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/ata-kaya/WeatherApp.git

  2. Navigate to the project directory:

    cd WeatherApp

  3. Open the project in Android Studio.

  4. Build and run the app using Android Studio or Gradle commands.

Features

  • Weather Information: Displays weather data using traditional Android UI components.
  • Background Foreground Counter: Tracks how many times the app goes to the background and comes back to the foreground.

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests if you have suggestions or improvements.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

For more information, check out the Room, Android Navigation, Dagger Hilt, Retrofit, Gson, and Glide documentation.