daniilbug/EnglishDictionary

An Android / Wear OS app built with Jetpack Compose to search for definitions of English words

EnglishDictionary

A simple Android / Wear OS app built with Jetpack Compose to search for definitions of English words.

Features

It provides following functionality to the user:

• Search for definitions of an english word
• See the history of your search requests

How it looks

Mobile

Wear

Architecture

There are three modules in the app:

• core - core functionality, data, domain and presentation layers
• mobile - ui layer of mobile app
• wear - ui layer of wear app

Tech Stack

Core

• Android Studio
• Kotlin
• Android framework
• Jetpack Compose Mobile
• Jetpack Compose Wear

Third party libraries

• Coil - image loading
• Retrofit - HTTP network library
• Moshi - Json library
• Room - abstraction layer over SQLite
• Dagger 2 - DI framework
• Kotlin coroutines - asynchronous programming
• ViewModel - is designed to store and manage UI-related data in a lifecycle conscious

API

• Free Dictionary API
• Glyffix Images API

Generating signed APK

From Android Studio:

1. Build menu
2. Generate Signed APK...
3. Fill in the keystore information (you only need to do this once manually and then let Android Studio remember it)