khayamy001 / fluxyandroidtodo

My take on how to implement a Flux like architecture in Android using a ToDo app as an example.

#FluxyTodo FluxyTodo is an Android application that serves to demonstrate a few different things.

• It is an example of how to use Dagger 2 and Butterknife for DI (dependency injection) in and how to use Otto to decouple Android applications.
• It also serves as a proof of concept for a new Android application architecture I came up with.
• It promotes dependency injection, TDD (test driven development), and a unidirectional data-flow, which makes the separation of view and business logic simple and clear.

####More information about what, why, and how, can be found in my accompanying blog post.

##Running If you would like to get this project up and running so you can mess around with it, just follow these simple steps.

• Fork
• Clone
• Import project into Android Studio
• Run app

##Testing If you would like to run the tests included in this project

• Find the src/test/java/com/armueller/fluxytodo directory
• Right click on the package (inside Android Studio)
• Select "Run 'Tests in com.armueller.fluxytodo'"

##Future work Despite the fact that this app is completely self contained (similar to how the todo app works from Facebook's Flux), I am pretty satisfied with out it turned out. I came up with a couple different ideas on how server communication might be incorporated into this architecture, but I wasn't really happy with any of them. Obviously, to be complete, server communication must fit into the equation somewhere, so that's what I'll be working on next. Once I come up with a solution that im satisfied with, I will update this repo and my blog post to reflect what I came up with.

###Todo:

• Figure out how to incorporate server communication into architecture
• Set up db at firebase for todos
• Make app sync data to firebase
• Revise blog to incorporate server communication into architecture
• Update repo