Nagbox

Recurring reminders for wayward creatives.

Nagbox is a small app designed to do one thing: nag you repeatedly when you waste your time and not let you lose the track of it. Just set up a recurring reminder, enable it when you start slacking, and feel guilty each time it fires.

Actually, this is a really simple app made for three reasons:

1. A sample for my upcoming Medium articles on various Android development and design patterns (e.g. the first one will be on SQLite integration approach);
2. A playground to get familiar with new things (e.g. data binding, N notifications);
3. Actually, I need an app like this myself, and it’s quite possible that I’ll further develop it into a complete full-featured app. Think of it as a minimum viable product developed in under a week.

At the moment the project showcases some best practices for:

• working with a local SQLite database using a Loader, ContentProvider, IntentService, and a couple of helper classes I came up with and will explain in an upcoming Medium article;
• displaying data from the database in a RecyclerView;
• all of this done using data binding, including 2-way data binding in Create/Edit dialog;
• Android N friendly stacked notifications;
• doing this all with no 3rd party scaffolding (RxJava, Dagger, Realm etc) — only vanilla SDK and support libraries.

This app on Google Play

Not enough MVP!

Some developers may find the lack of MVP/MVC/MVVM/etc architecture in this sample disturbing. While I agree that those are great for making large projects organized, I have a strong opinion against over-engineering.

This sample is very simple and does not need MVP. If you like acronyms so much, check out KISS and YAGNI.

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Copyright (C) 2016 Actinarium

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