Instacat

Instacat is a simple android application made for all the cat lovers in the world. The app displays a list of cat images and displays a detail screen when the user selects a cat. The user can also listen to a "Meow" sound when they press the button on the detail screen.

Development status

• In progress

Temporary ScreenShots

Libraries

• Glide
• Retrofit
• ConstraintLayout
• Architecture Components
• Exoplayer
• Moshi
• Kotlin coroutines
• Android Support Library

Technical Description:

• The application architecture is in Model-View-ViewModel.
• Navigation architecture component is used to manage navigation in this app.
• Room database is used to persist the information.
• Kotlin coroutes are used for handling long-running tasks.
• Retrofit is a REST Client
• To create responsive layouts for different screen sizes we use constrainLayout.
• Exoplayer to play to local audio file.
• Glide for loading the images.

API

Data used in the app is read from the TheCatAPI. URL: https://thecatapi.com/

Language

• Kotlin

To-Do List

• Write unit tests
• Add Dagger for dependency injection
• Create a beautiful UI