Android Project Github Template

A template for creating new repositories for the new Android Project.

What is diffrent here from creating a new project from Android Studio?

This repository is meant to serve as a general template for how to set up new repository for Android. In general, setting up a new repository takes 30-60 minutes; use this repository as a way of setting up in 5 minutes, and use the following checklist to ensure that you've set up the repository correctly. It has additional modules and files to save your time.

Features

• BuildSrc module (for handling dependecies at one place).
• Core module (includes Kotlin Extensions, Base classess etc.).
• Static tool analysis with Report generation (Ktlint, KtlintAutoFormat Detekt, Custom Detekt Lint Rules).
• Android CI (using Github's Action workflow)
• .gitignore for Android Studio Projects.
• and many more to come....

Checklist

These instructions are basic; The important part is making sure that you follow the checklist for error free setup.

Create Repository from Github

• Click on use this template on this repository.
• Enter your Github repo name.
• Uncheck include all branches option.
• Click on create repo from template button. now your repo has been created.

Clone Repo in Android Studio and set up.

• Clone your newly created github repo into Android Studio.
• Go to settings.gradle and change rootProject.name as per your project name.
• Go to App's build.gradle and change applicationId as per your project package.
• Go to App's module strings.xml and change app_name to your app name.
• Delete Readme.MD file.
• [Optional] Go to themes.xml and refactor Base Application them's name Theme.AndroidRepoGithubTemplate as per your requirements. that's it.

Additional Notes

• CI is only triggred on pull request. If you need to change action go to android-master.yml
• You can edit rules for Detekt in this detekt-rule.yml.

- Code Quality Checks

This projects uses detekt and ktlint static code analyser in CI/CD pipeline to maintain code quality. they also genrated reports.

Run detekt locally

Use ./gradlew detekt

Reports location for each module-
-/app/build/reports/detekt/report.html
-/core/build/reports/detekt/report.html

Run ktlint locally

Use ./gradlew ktlint

Reports location for each module-
-/app/build/reports/ktlint/ktlint-checkstyle-report.xml
-/core/build/reports/ktlint/ktlint-checkstyle-report.xml

Run ktlint formatter locally

Use ./gradlew ktlintFormat

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- Contributing

Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests.

Any contributions, large or small, major features, bug fixes, are welcomed and appreciated but will be thoroughly reviewed .

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- License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Happy Singh

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