Pokedex-Android

Pokedex-Android was developed to showcase various modern Android development toolkits recommended by Google.

Note

If you want to see the Flutter version of Pokedex, check out the Pokedex-Flutter repository.

Project Tech Stack:

• Architecture: MVVM (View - ViewModle - Model), helps to keep project clean and maintainable by offering seperation of concerns.
• Programming Language: Kotlin.
• Async Operations: Coroutines.
• UI: Jetpack Compose - Is a declarative way of creating UIs in monder android development, recommented by google.
• Local Database: Room persistence library to keep data when there is no internet available.
• Dependency Injection(DI): Hilt
• Network operations: Retrofit
• Load Images from URl: Glide
• KSP: Kotlin Symbol Processing API for code generation and analysis.
• Navigate between screens: Type-save Navigation - Compose Navigation
• Shared Element Transitions in Compose

Basic Configurations:

• compileSdk: 35
• targetSdk: 35
• minSdk: 28
• gradle: 8.7.2
• kotlin: 2.0.21

Example:

References:

UI insperation:

• Part of the UI used in the Pokemon Details screen is from figma shared UI which can be found here: https://www.figma.com/design/b5J7MDzB05ivkpGwjGJRyY/Pok%C3%A9dex-(Community)?node-id=314-3&t=qPncDaG0c3DWdIMN-0

Pokedex-Android uses two APIs from which getting the required information:

• For pokemon information: https://pokeapi.co/
• For pokemon image information: https://github.com/PokeAPI/sprites (Provides direct access to pokemon images)