Daily Programmer Challenges

Daily Programmer Challenges is an Android app that allows to browse the /r/dailyprogrammer subreddit.

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

Core Platform Development

App integrates a third-party library.
App validates all input from servers and users. If data does not exist or is in the wrong format, the app logs this fact and does not crash.
App includes support for accessibility. That includes content descriptions, navigation using a D-pad, and, if applicable, non-audio versions of audio cues.
App keeps all strings in a strings.xml file and enables RTL layout switching on all layouts.
App provides a widget to provide relevant information to the user on the home screen.

Google Play Services

App implements Google Analytics service
App implements Google Ads service
Each service imported in the build.gradle is used in the app.

Material Design

App theme extends AppCompat.
App uses an app bar and associated toolbars.
App uses standard and simple transitions between activities.

Building

App builds from a clean repository checkout with no additional configuration.
App builds and deploys using the installRelease Gradle task.
App is equipped with a signing configuration, and the keystore and passwords are included in the repository. Keystore is referred to by a relative path.
All app dependencies are managed by Gradle.

Data Persistence

App stores data locally either by implementing a ContentProvider OR using Firebase Realtime Database. No third party frameworks may be used.
It it performs short duration, on-demand requests(such as search), app uses an AsyncTask.
App uses a Loader to move its data to its views.

The following optional features are implemented:

App uses Fabric & Crashlytics for metrics
App uses Stetho for db and network inspection
App uses Timber for logging and uses build variants to determine which logs to output
App uses JRAW library and gson for reddit processing
App uses Active Android for DB persistence
App uses Retrofit for handling network requests

Notes

In order to get Crashlytics to work, you need a fabric.properties file at the root of the project with your Fabric secret key

Mockups

License

Copyright [2017] [Erik Cox]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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