Android Excercise

Implemented Libraries

• RxJava
• RxAndroid
• Retrofit
• OkHttp
• Dagger
• Play Services - Location
• Material Design
• LiveData and ViewModel
• Room
• Picasso

Specifics

• This application was developed in Android Studio v 3.5
• Application uses MVVM architecture
• Emulator should have play services setup

Features

• Current weather information displayed at top of screen
• RecyclerView displaying daily forecast at bottom of screen
• Referesh button to reload data
• Weather data aquired through Retofit GET
• Data stored locally supporting offline mode
• User location acquired from play services

Comments

• Needs unit testing
• Weather icon links are hard-coded, would prefer to extract to API
• Dagger compilation issue due to kapt bug - refer to app build.gradle
• Network error noted when using Pixel 2 API 25 on initial run after install