Twakto - Simple App using Modern Android Architecture (Kotlin)

Twakto is a sample project that presents a modern approach to Android app development.

The project tries to combine popular Android tools and to demonstrate best development practices by utilizing up to date tech-stack like Compose, Kotlin Flow and Hilt.

The sample app layers its presentation through MVVM presentation pattern.

Description

• UI

  • Compose declarative UI framework

• Tools

  • Kotlin 100% coverage
  • Coroutines and Flow for async operations
  • Hilt for dependency injection
  • Jetpack
  • Compose
  • ViewModel that stores, exposes and manages UI state
  • Retrofit for networking
  • Coil for image loading

• Modern Architecture

  • MVVM for presentation layer
  • Android Architecture components (ViewModel,
  • Android KTX - Jetpack Kotlin extensions

Presentation patterns layers

• View - Composable screens that consume state.
• ViewModel - AAC ViewModel that manages and set the state of the corresponding screen. Additionally, it intercepts UI events as callbacks and produces side-effects. The ViewModel is scoped to the lifetime of the corresponding screen composable in the backstack.
• Model - Data source classes that retrieve content.

References

1. https://github.com/android/compose-samples
2. https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose
3. https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/state

Demo