arjunjadeja / slate

Slate is an app in which you can store thoughts and memories in text form securely.

Slate

✍️ Slate is an android app to store thoughts and memories in text form securely.

Preview

Demo

Watch App Demo on YouTube.

Download

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Tech stack

• Kotlin - Modern, concise and safe programming language.
• Flow - A flow is a stream of data that can be computed asynchronously.
• Coroutines - A concurrency design pattern to execute code asynchronously.
• Jetpack
  • Lifecycle - Observe Android lifecycles and handle UI states upon the lifecycle changes.
  • Navigation - Implements navigation from simple button clicks to more complex patterns.
  • ViewBinding - Binds UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format rather than programmatically.
  • ViewModel - Manages UI-related data holder and lifecycle aware. Allows data to survive configuration changes such as screen rotations.
  • LiveData - LiveData is lifecycle-aware, meaning it respects the lifecycle of other app components, such as activities, fragments, or services.
  • Datastore - DataStore is a data storage solution that allows you to store key-value pairs or typed objects with protocol buffers.
  • Room - The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
• DiffUtil - DiffUtil is a utility class that can calculate the difference between two lists and output a list of update operations that converts the first list into the second one.
• Material You - Material design components for building View layouts and Animations.
• MVVM Architecture - MVVM architecture is a Model-View-ViewModel architecture that removes the tight coupling between each component.

App Architecture

Slate is based on the MVVM architecture and the Repository pattern.

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Credits

Empty List Illustration by IconScout Store.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Arjun Jadeja

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