With Android Jumpstart, we want to zero down the scaffolding time for Android apps. Most apps we work on share the same boilerplate code, including
- Declaring dependencies
- Auto-increment version code - ToDo
- Setting up Retrofit for API interaction
- Setting up Koin for dependency injection
- Setting up common utility classes
- LocalStorage (wrapper on SharedPreferences)
- A themed info dialog
- Creating a mocking framework for testing- ToDo
- Push Notification Service- ToDo
- BaseAdapter for RecyclerViews
- Setting up Json Serialization and DeSerialization
Jumpstart takes care of all this, and more. Jumpstart adds support for many commonly used libraries,
Setting up is really easy, there's a python script here that clones the Jumpstart repo, changes the project name and package name. All the developer needs to after this is the update the API urls and they have a base project ready.
Make your activities extend one of BaseActivity, BaseToolbarActivity or BaseDrawerActivity,
(all of which subclass AppCompatActivity) depending on your requirements.
The BaseDrawerActivity handles the Navigation Drawer setup, and the DrawerActionToggle. You can
customize the drawer menu by modifying the file nav_drawer_menu.xml
The BaseToolbarActivity handles setting up the toolbar and the home as up button. Simply have your classes extend this and there's no need to worry about the toolbar.
TODO Add information about FragmentTransactionHandler
Similar to BaseActivity, extending BaseFragment gives you access to apiService.
The retrofit configuration is done here.
Jumpstart adds four build types by default, debug, debugProd, release, releaseProd. You should configure these as per your requirements.