An Android StackOverflow client application implemented using the MVVM architecture, Retrofit2, LiveData, Flow, ViewModel, Repository pattern, View Binding. Users can get to view Questions which have been asked on Stack Overflow; picking a particular Question makes the user view it in detail as well as the Answers provided. These Questions can be filtered by any of these four categories; Active, Recent, Hot or Voted. Questions that have an accepted Answer are easily identified. Users can also search for a particular problem they are having by typing in a search query or by capturing an image and performing an OCR on it. Questions are curated based on the search query and presented to the user; again, the user can pick a particular Question to view the provided Answers. Users also have the options to keep a tab on a Tag, filter out questions by Tags, search for any Tag of interest, share questions and answers with themselves or other developers.

• Retrofit which is a type-safe REST client for Android which makes it easier to consume RESTful web services
• Paging Library which helps to load and display small chunks of data at a time
• ViewModel used to store and manage UI-related data in a lifecycle conscious way
• LiveData which is an observable data holder class used to handle data in a lifecycle-aware manner
• Glide which is an image loading and caching library for Android
• Material Design which is an adaptable system that guides in maintaining principles and best practices of contemporary UI
• View Binding used to easily write code that interacts with views by referencing them directly
• Espresso used to write concise, beautiful, and reliable Android UI tests
• MarkdownView which is a simple library that helps to display Markdown text or files on Android as a HTML page just like GitHub
• ML Kit OCR which is a library that recognizes text in any captured image
• Android Image Cropper which is an image cropping library for Android, optimized for camera and gallery.
• Dagger for Dependency Injection
• Kotlin Coroutines for executing network calls asynchronously
• Kotlin flow for emitting live updates from a network call sequentially
• Preferences DataStore for storing and retrieving key-value pairs of primitive data types

This App requires a minimum API level of 26. Clone the repository. You will need an API key from Stack Exchange API to receive a higher request quota. Locate the StringConstants.java file and edit the following line to add your API key:

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

All contributions are welcome. See the CONTRIBUTING file for guidelines on contributing

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