build-it-bigger
Joke telling app using GCE backend and gradle
In this project, I have used Gradle to build a joke-telling app, factoring functionality into libraries and flavors to keep the build simple. I have also configured a Google Cloud Endpoints development server to supply the jokes.
Other features:
- Project contains a Java library for supplying jokes
- Project contains an Android library with an activity that displays jokes passed to it as intent extras.
- Project contains a Google Cloud Endpoints module that supplies jokes from the Java library. Project loads jokes from GCE module via an async task.
- Project contains connected tests to verify that the async task is indeed loading jokes.
- Project contains paid/free flavors. The paid flavor has no ads, and no unnecessary dependencies.
- App retrieves jokes from Google Cloud Endpoints module and displays them via an Activity from the Android Library.
- The free app variant displays interstitial ads between the main activity and the joke-displaying activity.
- The app displays a loading indicator while the joke is being fetched from the server.
- A Gradle task that starts the GCE dev server, runs all the Android tests, and shuts down the dev server.
Java 7/8 Latest version of Android SDK and Android Build Tools
###Building
You can build the app with Android Studio or with ./gradlew assembleDebug command.