My BackYard Android App
Java - AndroidSDK - JUnit - OKHTTP - GSON
Description
My BackYard is a full stack application designed to act as a handy reference for homeowners, gardeners or even landscapers as they tend to their yards or gardens. Inspired by my wife, who loves spending time tending to all of our various plants, there came a point where she required some sort of note system to help her remember all the facts and notes about our home's ecosystem.
I have designed My BackYard as a full stack application divided into a backend and frontend components that utilizes a REST API for communication between the two components. At this stage in the application development functionality is limited and represents only a minimum viable product however I have placed much of my focus on a backend architecture that will allow for growth both in scope and demand.
The Frontend Mobile App
The frontend component for this project is an Android application. At this stage in development it amounts to a list of lists that pretty much follows the relationship model of the backend. Since the data model was designed following the real life pattern the frontend app becomes just a visual representation of that.
The Android application has a single activity that acts as a common space for a fragment container that is home for the UI fragments and central view model data cache which acts to keep API calls to a minimum. In addition to the fragments dedicated to displaying the model objects I also have an admin fragment which allows for input of an API key and a search fragment from which the user can search for yards, plants, and animals by name.