dtruong21 / just-for-fun

My 4th project of Android Developper Nanodegree program

Just for fun

Udacity Build it Bigger

This is my version of Udacity's Build it Bigger project. I build this as part of Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree program i've enrolled.

In this project, I have created an app with multiple flavors that uses multiple libraries and Google Cloud Endpoints. The finished app will consist of four modules. A Java library that provides jokes, a Google Cloud Endpoints (GCE) project that serves those jokes, an Android Library containing an activity for displaying jokes, and an Android app that fetches jokes from the GCE module and passes them to the Android Library for display.

Why this Project

As Android projects grow in complexity, it becomes necessary to customize the behavior of the Gradle build tool, allowing automation of repetitive tasks. Particularly, factoring functionality into libraries and creating product flavors allow for much bigger projects with minimal added complexity.

What I've learned?

• Add free and paid flavors to an app, and set up your build to share code between them
• Factor reusable functionality into a Java library
• Factor reusable Android functionality into an Android library
• Configure a multi project build to compile your libraries and app
• Use the Gradle App Engine plugin to deploy a backend
• Configure an integration test suite that runs against the local App Engine development server

Required Components

• Project contains a Java library for supplying jokes
• Project contains an Android library with an activity that displays jokes passed to it as intent extras.
• Project contains a Google Cloud Endpoints module that supplies jokes from the Java library. Project loads jokes from GCE module via an async task.
• Project contains connected tests to verify that the async task is indeed loading jokes.
• Project contains paid/free flavors. The paid flavor has no ads, and no unnecessary dependencies.

Required Behavior

• App retrieves jokes from Google Cloud Endpoints module and displays them via an Activity from the Android Library.

License

Copyright 2017 Cong-Minh Truong

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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Thanks and regard