A weather app illustrating several Android development best practices with Android Jetpack.

The app will consist of one screen. On this screen, the app will display a zip code (chosen and hard-coded by you, which is 94538 Fremont, CA), as well as details of the current weather for that zip code. The details will include: City, State, General Description, Current Temperature and Icon

Android Jetpack is a set of components, tools and guidance to make great Android apps. They bring together the existing Support Library and Architecture Components and arrange them into four categories:

This project uses the Gradle build system.

For more resources on learning Android development, visit the Developer Guides at developer.android.com.

• Architecture - A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps. Start with classes for managing your UI component lifecycle and handling data persistence.
  • Data Binding - Declaratively bind observable data to UI elements.
  • Lifecycles - Create a UI that automatically responds to lifecycle events.
  • LiveData - Build data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
  • Navigation - Handle everything needed for in-app navigation.
  • ViewModel - Store UI-related data that isn't destroyed on app rotations. Easily schedule asynchronous tasks for optimal execution.
• Third party
  • Glide for image loading
  • Kotlin Coroutines for managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks

1. Add Room database for offline experience
2. Add Repository pattern
3. Add an edittext to query any place by zipcode

For development, the latest version of Android Studio is required. The latest version can be downloaded from here.