Tutorial application for the course about ViewModels in Android by Brandon Gogetap.
- Use of ViewModels.
- Use of LiveData to reactively update the UI.
- Decoupling Networking logic from the UI using ViewModels and LiveData.
- REST API Calls using Retrofit to download the Remote data in ViewModels.
- Dagger2 dependency injection for ViewModels.
- AutoValue to define immutable Value Types.
- Android Support library
- ViewModel for maintaining the data of the App and handling the network queries.
- LiveData to hold the data and notify its observers when the data changes.
- Butterknife for binding the View components.
- Retrofit for communicating with GitHub API.
- Moshi to parse JSON into Java Objects.
- Dagger2 for Dependency Injection.
- AutoValue for defining immutable Value Types.
- Interdepencies of "Retrofit & Moshi", and "AutoValue & Moshi".
- feat_viewmodels
- Covers the initial setup and implementation of ViewModels to load and display a list of Repositories and the details for a selected Repository.
- Shows how to reload the app after process death (save-restore flow).
- feat_dagger
- Covers the implementation of Dependency Injection using Dagger 2 for Networking logic and ViewModels.
- feat_autovalue
- Covers the AutoValue Implementation for Value Types.
- Shows how using AutoValue makes comparison usecases like DiffUtil easier.
- master
- This is the main/default branch that covers all the above.
