playbar/rapidandroidframework

Abstract, easy, quick, flexible and extendable Rapid Android development

Rapid Android Development Template

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Tools

Android Studio 1.x and Gradle 2.x

IDE Tools

• [Dagger Plugin] (https://github.com/square/dagger-intellij-plugin)
• [Android ButterKnife Zelezny] (http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7369)

Libraries

• Active Android 3.1.10
• Retrofit 1.9.0
• OkHttp 2.4.0
• Otto Eventbus 1.3.8
• Dagger 1.2.2
• ButterKnife 6.1.0
• [Otto Picasso 2.5.2] (http://square.github.io/picasso/)
• UI validation library Saripaar

3rd Parties Social (as gradle imports)

• Facebook SDK
• Twitter SDK by Fabric
• Crashlytics SDK by Fabric

Note: You can change the keys into api_keys.xml. For Crashlytics you can change it into AndroidManifest.xml. There is a SocialManager class to use for social actions.

Check the documentation

• Wiki

Testing

• Robolectric for unit testing
• JaCoCo coverage testing
• Shell scripts to run tests fast. Check scripts folder.
• CircleCI continuous integration server
• Calabash (SOON)

Proguard

• Proguard enable for LIVE, UAT environments to minify the build

Gradle

• Gradle configuration for multi-environment support

Environment Manager

• Multi-environment support (LIVE, UAT, STAGING)
• Assigns dynamically environment for the current build
• Assigns dynamically the API URL for the current build
• Assigns dynamically the API logging level for the current build
• Assigns dynamically the logging level for the current build
• Decides if the app according to the environment can track in analytics
• Decides if the app according to the environment can receive notifications
• Decides if the app according to the environment can track bugs in crashlytics

API Managers

• OkHttpClient support to make the HTTP requests for API
• AbstractApiManager with Retrofit based on the Environment manager API URL
• FULL/NONE logging for API based on the Environment manager LOGLEVEL of API
• AbstractAsyncTask which produces events in a public BUS
• Event Base architecture with Otto for each response after an AbstractAsyncTask
• Access to API methods via Reflection. The only thing you must set up is the ApiRequestAttrs. Example in wiki

Activities

• Dagger for dependency injection
• ButterKnife views injection to use this -> @InjectView(R.id.btnTest) to minimize and remove the old (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnTest)
• Each Activity/FragmentActivity registered to listen the Event BUS
• Customizable/Overridable action bar for each Activity/FragmentActivity
• AbstractFragmentActivity to extended by each Fragment activity and it can contains the fragment you want. You must implement only the createFragment method
• BaseFragment to be extended by each fragment as generic fragment

Google Analytics

• Support for google analytics track events and pageviews. Use AnalyticsManager