Application Technology Assessment

This application was built using MVP Design Pattern, and in mind clean architecture.

The application uses the NY Times API as below;

http://api.nytimes.com/svc/mostpopular/v2/viewed/30.json?api-key=wzXI9F5g6tpL9FSXqE9xlyde0Lk006eo

Getting Started

Build

Build Application from command line using gradle
- Go to application folder
- Run below command (without the $ sign)

$ ./gradlew build

Unit Test

Run JUnit Tests

$ ./gradlew connectedAndroidTest

Then you can see reports in build/reports/androidTests/connected/index.html path

FindBugs

Run FindBugs for Static Code Analysis

$ ./gradlew findbugs

SonarCube

Download the SonarQube Community Edition
Unzip it, on windows (ex. C:\sonarqube) or on linux (ex. /opt/sonarqube)
Start the SonarQube Server:

# On Windows, execute:
C:\sonarqube\bin\windows-x86-xx\StartSonar.bat

# On other operating systems, as a non-root user execute:
/opt/sonarqube/bin/[OS]/sonar.sh console

Log in to http://localhost:9000 with System Administrator credentials (admin/admin) and follow the embedded tutorial to analyze your first project.
Go to http://localhost:9000/admin/projects_management and press "Create project" button.
Run the below in the command line to start analysing the project code

./gradlew sonarqube   -Dsonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000   -Dsonar.login=8f0e063d6007c08d7af40c98ecce5c5cb9c284fa

Below are the libraries were used in this app

Retrofit - For Network communication
OKHttp - Interceptor to use with Retrofit
Dagger2 - For DI
RxAndroid - Reactive programming
Butter Knife - for Views DI
Picasso - Image library
CardView - CardView compatibility on older devices
Gson
CircleImageView
RecyclerView
AutoValue - Generate Immutable value classes