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Rewriting Plaid usingAndroid Architecture Components, in Kotlin.

👀 "Up for grabs" issues – We're happy toget your contributions on those!

👍 Comments and new issues created are welcomed.

🛑 We're currently not accepting external PRs that touch on the app's architecture.

Plaid was written with one big goal: showcase material design in Android in a real application. While Plaid successfully achieved its goal, from an architecture point of view, it lacks all features that would make it a modular, scalable, testable and maintainable app: with UI logic in Android classes, no tests and only one module.Plaid represents a great real world app example: it provides a fairly complex set of functionalities, it has technical debt, it has features that have to be dealt with as APIs are being removed.All of these problems are encountered by many projects in the Android community and therefore, make Plaid a suitable showcase for all the advantages that architecture components bring.

• Read more:

  • Restitching Plaid - Updating Plaid to modern app standards
  • A patchwork Plaid - Monolith to modularized app
  • Cross-stitching Plaid and AndroidX
  • Dependency injection in a multi module project

• Video Presentations:

  • Shaping Your App's Architecture with Kotlin and Architecture Components by Florina (Florina Muntenescu at KotlinConf 2018)
  • Re-stitching Plaid with Kotlin (Florina Muntenescu at Android Dev Summit '18)

• Migrate Plaid to Architecture Components. The refactoring will follow the architecture described inGuide to App Architecture.
• Convert to Kotlin, while migrating to Architecture Components.
• Modularize the app usingdynamic feature modules.
• Showcase the extensibility of the architecture by adding an extra data source, once the migration is finished.

Changes to the styles, themes, icons, animations, transitions or any other UI elements that were the initial focus of Plaid, are outside the scope of this refactoring.

Plaid requires Android Studio version 3.6 or higher.

Plaid usesktlint to enforce Kotlin coding styles.Here's how to configure it for use with Android Studio (instructions adaptedfrom the ktlintREADME):

• Close Android Studio if it's open

• Download ktlint using theseinstallation instructions

• Inside the project root directory run:

  ./ktlint --apply-to-idea-project --android

• Remove ktlint if desired:

  rm ktlint

• Start Android Studio

Design news and inspiration.

Plaid is a showcase ofmaterial design that we hope you willkeep installed. It pulls in news & inspiration fromDesigner News,Dribbble &Product Hunt. It demonstratesthe use ofmaterial principlesto create tactile, bold, understandable UIs.

Install on Google Play (Beta Testing)

Plaid is a UI sample and seeks to demonstrate how to implement material design. To make this as clear as possible it explicitly does not attempt to:

• Provide opinionatedarchitecture/testing advice; it utilizes vanilla Android components. For advice on this, I'd recommendBlueprints.
• Supportpre-Lollipop devices. Doing so is entirely possible, but complicates things. For advice on doing this, seethis fork.

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