Pasolini, Sguardi di Vita

A rewritten version of one of my first projects: "Pasolini: Sguardi di Vita" using a MVVM architecture and Kotlin.

The app present content regarding the italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Rome neighbourhood where he mainly lived, guiding the user in a digital and interactive visit of these places.

Inspired by @Plastix Android-Boilerplate as project template.

Screenshots

Libraries

• Dagger 2
• RxJava 2 and RxAndroid
• Retrofit 2
• Picasso
• Google Support Libraries
• MetaioSDK
• Google Maps APIs
• YouTube APIs

Testing Libraries

• JUnit
• Mockito

Requirements

To compile and run the project you'll need:

• Android SDK
• Android N (API 25)
• Android SDK Tools
• Android SDK Build Tools 25
• Android Support Repository
• Kotlin 1.0.6
• Kotlin plugin for Android Studio

Building

To build, install and run a debug version, run this from the root of the project:

./gradlew assembleDebug

Testing

To run unit tests on your machine:

./gradlew test

To run instrumentation tests on connected devices:

./gradlew connectedAndroidTest

Release Builds

A release build needs to be signed with an Android Keystore. The easiest way to generate a keystore is to open Android Studio and go to Build -> Generate Signed Apk -> Create New... After that you need to create a signing.properties file in the root directory and add the following info to it:

STORE_FILE=/path/to/your.keystore
STORE_PASSWORD=yourkeystorepass
KEY_ALIAS=projectkeyalias
KEY_PASSWORD=keyaliaspassword

Running ./gradlew assembleRelease will then build and sign a release version of the app.

FAQ

Why Kotlin?

In a nutshell, Kotlin throws all the bad parts of Java out the window and brings lots of great features from Java 8 and functional programming (Yet still compiling to Java 6 bytecode). Kotlin brings much needed language features to Android which is stuck on Java 6.