xkcd

Best app to view xkcd comics

• Continuous Integration
• Installation
• TO-DO list
• Used libraries
• Used materials / Thanks
• Screenshots & gifs

Continuous Integration (dev branch)

• Visual Studio Team Services
• AppCenter
• CircleCI

Installation

• Download apk from release section
• build manually:

git clone https://github.com/bruce-willis/xkcd.git
cd xkcd
./gradlew build

Note: Make sure your Android SDK has the Android Support Repository installed, and that your $ANDROID_HOME environment variable is pointing at the SDK or add a local.properties file in the root project with a sdk.dir=... line.

TO-DO list

TO-DO list with status can be found in projects section

Used libraries

• Glide for working with images. You can read more about reasons to pick it here
• PhotoView for zooming comics
• Espresso for UI testing. Basic UI tests can be found here

Used materials / Thanks

• Glide

  • Simple guide to create recyclerview with Michael Jordan
  • How to choose right context for glide
  • Why we should use hardware bitmaps
  • Continuous Shared Element Transitions: RecyclerView to ViewPager
  • Show pictures with highest res possible

• PhotoView

  • Work around for annoying bug with viewgroup

• Icons&Splashcreen

  • Official documentation for creating adaptive and legacy launcher icons
  • Android asset studio for possibility to add score effect. Difference with default image:
  • Create splash screen in the right way (without unnecessary activity)

• Espresso

  • Interact with recyclerview list items
  • Testing ViewPager with Espresso

• Toolbar

  • How to display android actionbar title without truncation occurring
  • ActionBar Up button like the back button

Screenshots and gifs

• main screen
  

• fast opening & caching
  

• fast scrolling
  

• Continuous Shared Element Transitions (specially slow down animation speed)
  

• zooming

• swiping

• change recyclerview position (attention that recyclerview scrolled down)

• sharing