A simple kotlin based android app for searching GitHub repositories on phone by providing search terms like language name, library, framework etc., It will give you a list of all repositories given your search term.
And you can also search for particular user by using GitHub username and can see users repos list.
App Status: 1.0 (minimal version) [In Development]
Instructions to setup and run this project on your system
List of things needed for running the app successfully on your system
- Java 8 or above
- Android Studio 4.0
And you need either a AVD or a physical android device of API 21 and above to run this project.
- Clone this repo if you have git installed by using
git clone <clone or download url> - Open it in Adroid Studio (4.0)
- Sync in all the gradle dependencies
- Then, build and run the project
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Retrofit: For working with my GitHUB API. It turns your HTTP API into a Kotlin Interface. For further reading click here -
Picasso: It mainly used for fetching users github avatar and displaying it on my app. A picasso is a powerful image downloading and caching library for Android. For documentation click here -
Gson: Used Gson for converting my Java Objects into a JSON implementation. FOr documentation click here
Sync all of it in your build.gradle under dependencies:
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0'
implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
Congratualitions, now you can play with my app