Product Assessment Application

A robust, modern Android application built using native development best practices to demonstrate clean architecture, reactive UI state management, and dependency injection. The application fetches a list of products from a remote API and presents them cleanly to the user.

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🚀 Architecture & Tech Stack

The application follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern coupled with Clean Architecture principles to establish separation of concerns, scalability, and ease of testing.

• UI Layer: Native Android components utilizing Fragments and RecyclerView powered by ViewBinding for type-safe layout interaction.
• Asynchronous Logic: Powered by Kotlin Coroutines and structured concurrency to perform non-blocking background operations.
• State Management: StateFlow handles single-source-of-truth UI state propagation reactively to the view layer.
• Dependency Injection: Hilt (Dagger) handles project-wide dependency injection, scoping network and repository objects optimally.
• Network Layer: Retrofit combined with OkHttp handles remote API communication with active logging interceptors.

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🛠️ Project Structure Overview

com.example.productassessment
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├── data/
│   ├── remote/
│   │   ├── api/          # Retrofit endpoints (ProductApi)
│   │   └── model/        # Remote data transfer models (Product)
│   └── repository/       # Data operations layer (ProductRepository)
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├── di/                   # Hilt Dependency Injection modules (HiltNetworkModule)
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└── ui/
    └── productList/      # Presentation UI layer (Fragment, ViewModel, Adapter, UiStates)

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⚡ Key Configuration & Fixes Applied

1. AGP 9.0 Built-in Kotlin Integration: Migrated build scripts to match modern Android Gradle Plugin 9.4.0+ specifications where Kotlin compilation support is automatically bundled inside the application plugin.
2. KSP & SourceSet Adaptation: Configured android.disallowKotlinSourceSets=false inside the project properties to allow the Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) engine to safely compile code side-by-side with the modern built-in Kotlin compiler.
3. Robust Lifecycle Observers: Implemented viewLifecycleOwner.repeatOnLifecycle(Lifecycle.State.STARTED) inside the UI layer to safely collect state emissions only when the UI is explicitly in the foreground, eliminating potential memory leaks.

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⚙️ Requirements & Getting Started

• Android Studio: Android Studio Ladybug (2026.1.4) or newer.
• JDK: Version 11 or higher.
• API Constraints: Minimum SDK 24, Target SDK 37.

1. Clone or open the repository in Android Studio.
2. Let Gradle build and synchronize successfully.
3. Deploy onto a running Emulator or Physical device with an active network connection.