Alphar

Alphar is an 📱 android application which provides the full information about the selected 🥞 meal including the instructions how to prepare that meal followed by a video tutorial.
It provides the leisure to categorize the meals and makes your favourite meal available at one click.

📜 Contents

• Android Concepts Used
• Screenshots
• Languages Used
• Networking Libraries Used
• App Permissions
• UI
• Coding Style
• Future Enhancements

📑 Android Concepts Used

1. Activity Life Cycle : Navigate transitions between stages of the activity lifecycle.
2. Fragments : Part of an app's UI.
3. Coroutines : For asynchronous and more..
4. View Binding : Generates a binding class for each XML layout file present in that module and allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views.
5. View Model : Stores UI-related data that isn't destroyed on UI changes.
6. Room : Room is a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over the SQLite database to allow a more robust database.
7. Live Data : LiveData is a lifecycle-aware component and thus it performs its functions according to the lifecycle state of other application components.
8. Jetpack Navigation Components : Simplifies navigation implementation and helps in visualizing app’s navigation flow.
9. Recycler View : Helps in efficient display of large sets of data.
10. Navigation Components : Navigation refers to the interactions that allow users to navigate across, into, and back out from the different pieces of content within your app.

📸 Screenshots

Home	Hover Meal	Meal Information

Favorite Section	Category Section	Search Meal

🔤 Languages Used

1. Kotlin : First class and official programming language for Android development.

📋 Networking Libraries Used

1. Retrofit : A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
2. Glide : An image-loading library for Android that simplifies the process of loading and displaying images from external sources.

🔐 App Permissions

1. Internet

💻 UI

Fully responsive UI and customizable over multiple screen sizes.

📝 Coding Style

Used Object Oriented Programming and Clean Code practices.

💡 Future Enhancements

1. More categories and varieties of meals can be included through multiple Api calls.
2. Country based categorisation can be implemented.