Writing a modular Android Application

Talk given at the Mumbai Android Developers Meetup on the 24th of February 2018.

Covers the need and process for modularizing an Android app.

Article here: https://medium.com/mindorks/writing-a-modular-project-on-android-304f3b09cb37

Project here: https://github.com/karntrehan/Posts/

Transcript

1. Writing a modular Android Application - Karan Trehan Android @ m.Paani @karntrehan
2. What? What is a modular Android Application? How? How do I go about making my app modular? Why? Why do I or my users need it? 2
3. “ 3 What? Modular programming is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchangeable modules, such that each contains everything necessary to execute only one aspect of the desired functionality. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_programming
4. 4 Default structure Drawbacks: ▪ No shared utils ▪ Cumbersome code navigation ▪ No Instant Apps ▪ Slow gradle builds
5. 5 Modular structure Advantages: ▪ Faster gradle builds ▪ Re-usability of common functionality ▪ Easily “Instant” your apps ▪ Better teamwork (Ownership) ▪ Smoother Git Flows
6. Initial doubts with a modular Android App ▪ What architecture do I use? ▪ Is my choice of language going to impact me? ▪ How do I define my modules? ▪ What is a core module? ▪ How do I use 3rd party libraries? ▫ Room? ▫ Dagger 2? 6
7. Architecture Which one do I choose? MVP Presenter communicates between the view and the model 7 MVVM Viewmodel communicates between the view and the model Clean Like MVP, the model contains use cases which can be shared across multiple models MVI For each user action an intent is dispatched by the View and observed by the Presenter Reductor Redux inspired to make state mutations easier to read, write and reason about Custom Your custom implementation
8. CHOOSE ANY! Your architecture choices in no way impact the modular-ness of your app! Better, you can have different architectures in different modules. 8
9. 9 Language Which one do I write my modules in? VS
10. But, please, give Kotlin a try! Again, CHOOSE ANY! 10
11. 11 Modules What goes in which module? ▪ Identify app flows ▪ Create feature modules ▪ Non-UI modules ▪ Examples: ▫ authentication ▫ onboarding ▫ settings ▫ account ▫ notification
12. 12 Core Module Why do I need one? ▪ Utility classes and extension functions ▪ Global classes and callbacks ▪ Initiate libraries ▪ Provides global dependencies to dependency injection framework
13. 13 core stores rewards home notification authentication dependent’s build.gradle Module dependency structure
14. 14 3rd Party Libraries Where do I add them and initialize them? core’s build.gradle core’s CoreApp.kt
15. 15 Room How do I use this awesome library? ▪ New db into each feature module ▪ Migrations are modularized ▪ Instant apps contain only those tables they need ▪ Queries will be faster
16. 16 Dagger 2 How do I handle my dependencies?
17. Actual Code Implementation! ▪ Modular ▪ Kotlin ▪ Rx ▪ Retrofit ▪ LiveData ▪ ViewModel ▪ Tests https://github.com/karntrehan/posts Place your screenshot here 17 @karntrehan
18. THANK YOU! Have fun modularizing your apps! @karntrehan Template from: Mowbray, Link: https://goo.gl/XVJRqH