jploz/android-nd-political-preparedness

Capstone project for Android Developer Nano-Degree course

Political Preparedness

PolitcalPreparedness app for the Android Developer Nano-Degree course. This is the 5th and final project for the Udacity Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegree Program.

PolitcalPreparedness is an example application built to demonstrate core Android Development skills as presented in the Udacity Android Developers Kotlin curriculum.

This app demonstrates the following views and techniques:

• Retrofit to make api calls to an HTTP web service.
• Moshi which handles the deserialization of the returned JSON to Kotlin data objects.
• Glide to load and cache images by URL.
• Room for local database storage.

It leverages the following components from the Jetpack library:

• ViewModel
• LiveData
• Data Binding with binding adapters
• Navigation with the SafeArgs plugin for parameter passing between fragments

Google Civics API

Google Civics API requires an API key for access and use. For privacy reasons, this key is not included in the public code repository.

In order to build the project, you need to provide your own Google Civics API key as described below.

The build of this app is configured in a way that it uses a build configuration field for providing the necessary API key in the source code. It requires the definition of a string with name GOOGLE_CIVIC_INFO_API_KEY in a local gradle.properties file (e.g. in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties). Alternatively, you can override the value of the defined resValue directly in app/build.gradle (not recommended).