BrightwheelChallenge

Purpose

• Build an Android app that uses the GitHub REST API to display a list of the 100 most starred Github repositories. For each of the repositories, also display its top contributor.

Components

• This app uses Retrofit to requests API responses and displays them using a list view.
• The app is designed to support various other functionalities by providing their execution and conveniently placing them in the component list.

How to run?

• Launch the app from Android Studio into an emulator or an Android device capable of USB Debugging.
• Pick the operation from the list of components this app supports, for now it is only list of repos, and explore
• Currently the app only supports list of repos from github.

App operations

• App shows a list of github repos using using MVVM architecture.
• Clicking on a repo takes the user to a list of contributors for this repo.

Libraries used:

• Retrofit
• AndroidX
• ViewModel
• Gson

Future improvements

• Add support for dark mode, there are no themes in the app at the moment.
• Localize the app to add support for different languages.