https://github.com/devhumblechris/mars-photos-app

Kotlin Jetpack Compose Mars Photo App implementing the use of Retrofit and Coil library
https://github.com/devhumblechris/mars-photos-app

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Kotlin Jetpack Compose Mars Photo App implementing the use of Retrofit and Coil library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/devhumblechris/mars-photos-app
• Owner: DevHumbleChris
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2023-11-22T11:50:11.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-22T19:37:46.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T17:27:08.442Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Kotlin
• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Mars Photos

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Mars Photos app is a demo app that shows actual images of Mars' surface. These images are

real-life photos from Mars captured by NASA's Mars rovers. The data is stored on a Web server

as a REST web service.

This app demonstrated the use of [Retrofit](https://square.github.io/retrofit/) to make REST requests to the web service, [kotlinx.serialization](https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization) to

handle the deserialization of the returned JSON to Kotlin data objects, and [Coil](https://coil-kt.github.io/coil/) to load images by URL.

Pre-requisites

--------------

You need to know:

- How to create Composable functions.

- How to use architecture components including ViewModel.

- How to use coroutines for long-running tasks.

- Familiarity with lazy grid

Getting Started

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1. [Install Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/install.html), if you don't already

   have it.

2. Download the sample.

3. Import the sample into Android Studio.

4. Build and run the sample.

## [Build this app through hands-on codelabs in the Android Basics with Compose Course](https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-compose/course)

### [Get data from the internet](https://developer.android.com/codelabs/basic-android-kotlin-compose-getting-data-internet)

Learn how to use community-developed libraries to connect to a web service to retrieve and display data in your Android Kotlin compose app. 

### [Add repository and Manual DI](https://developer.android.com/codelabs/basic-android-kotlin-compose-add-repository)

Learn how to improve the architecture of the app by separating the network calls into a repository.

### [Load and display images from the internet](https://developer.android.com/codelabs/basic-android-kotlin-compose-load-images)

Use the Coil library to load and display photos from the internet in your Android Compose app.