A mobile app that helps with displaying NASA’s Astronomy picture of the day
Features:
- Search for the astronomy pictures or videos for a date of your choice
- Create & manage list of your favorite astronomy pictures
- Cached information in case of network unavailability.
- Dark mode support
- Support for different screen sizes & orientations
The application uses Architecture based on MVVM and Repository patterns. Implemented Architecture principles follow Google recommended Guide to app architecture.
This application is written entirely in Kotlin.
Android Jetpack is used as an Architecture glue including but not limited to ViewModel, LiveData, Lifecycles, Room and Data Binding.
The application does network HTTP requests via Retrofit, OkHttp and GSON. Loaded data is saved to Retrofit chaching.
Kotlin Coroutines manage background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks.
Frescro is used for image loading.
Lottie animationnis used for graphical animation on splash screen.
In this application, Nasa's open source api is used to display astronomy pictures and videos.
Detailed documentation for APIs click here: https://api.nasa.gov/#browseAPI