README.md

kotlin-weather

Simple android weather app developed in kotlin, demonstrating the use of RxJava, Retrofit and implementing MVP.

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Overview

Weather app created using the Weather Api from Mashape marketplace. This is not supposed to be a production scale application, it is meant to demonstrate the implementation of MVP architecture in Kotlin using following libraries:

• RxJava
• Retrofit

Still if you have any issues or suggestions, please feel free to open an issue

General flow of data

• Check if there is cached data present in the internal file, if yes then load the cached data.
• Retrieve the latitude and longitude of the user.
• Request data from Weather Api
• If data received, cache it in internal file and show the updated data to user.
• If error then notify user about it.

Build the Project

To build the project on your own follow these steps:

• Clone the project
• Get an API key from Weather Api
• Create a Kotlin file named Secrets.kt
• In that file create an object and add a variable API_KEY that contains the key that you got from the Weather Api.

object Secrets {
    val API_KEY = "your_api_key"
}

• Build the project!