Search for films from IMDB, gather film data(rating, length, cast…) and save them in a Room database.
Filmz is a native android application written in kotlin that illustrates Android development best practices with Android Jetpack, MVVM pattern and Kotlin Coroutines.
- Architecture - A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and
maintainable apps. Start with classes for managing your UI component lifecycle and handling data
persistence.
- Data Binding - Declaratively bind observable data to UI elements.
- Lifecycles - Create a UI that automatically responds to lifecycle events.
- LiveData - Build data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
- Navigation - Handle everything needed for in-app navigation.
- Room - Access your app's SQLite database with in-app objects and compile-time checks.
- ViewModel - Store UI-related data that isn't destroyed on app rotations. Easily schedule asynchronous tasks for optimal execution.
- Third party and miscellaneous libraries
- Glide for image loading
- Retrofit for api calls
- moshi Convert JSON
- SimpleSearchView Search view based on MaterialDesign guidlines
- Kotlin Coroutines for managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks