KReddit [WIP]

An Android Reddit client written in Kotlin with MVVM architecture.

Developers

To set up the project, create a new Reddit app from your account and follow the below steps:

• set the application redirect URI to: kreddit://authenticate (for login), you are also free to change the redirect URI, but make sure to update the same in AndroidManifest.xml and app/build.gradle files with corresponding keys accordingly otherwise login will not work.
• include your Reddit client id in the gradle.properties file

Following features are supported:

• MVVM architectural pattern
• Login feature with automatic token refresh
• Vote on feeds (like/dislike)
• Offline support
• Supports different screen sizes with master-detail flow
• Unit test demonstration for business logic at network layer using JUnit & Mockito
• Pull down to refresh the home feed

Libraries used:

• Architecture components : Navigation component, Room DB, LiveData & ViewModel, Paging library with boundary callback
• Coroutines for offloading heavy tasks
• MotionLayout for details page transitions when swiped up
• Dagger2 for dependency injection
• Retrofit2 & OkHttp for core networking
• Material Components for UI widgets
• Epoxy for displaying an optimised list of feeds with smooth scroll. Currently Paging2 library is used as it is in a stable release, once Paging3 comes to release, it can be included.

• Groupie for displaying comments section in feed details page
• MMKV for having an efficient memory mapped preferences
• Glide to display the images