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Table of Content:

• Description
• Tools Used
• Reflection
• Installation

📜 Description:

A simple Android App which rings an alarm when one is about to reach a destination.

_{A slight peek at the progress so far.}

_{Note: The Video to GIF convertor made the GIF skip the video frames (look laggy).}

🛠️ Tools Used:

• ViewBinding, LiveData, DataStore, Room, ViewModel, FragmentStateAdapter, Foreground and Bound Service, Property Animation Framework and Preference library.
• Views: Motion, Constraint, Linear and Frame Layouts, Spinner, RecyclerView, SearchView, TabLayout BottomNavigationView, ViewPager2, SwitchCompatand OnBoardSupportFragment.
• Google Maps SDK (FusedLocationProvider API, Geofencing API)
• Timber
• TSnackbar
• Kotlin: Scope functions, Flow, Co-routines

✍️ Reflection

🔖 References:

• Learned a gradle way to hide API key from this google codelab.
• Google Map ApiDemos repository by Google; Although some parts were obsolete, it gave me gotchas on the usage of the API alongside with ViewGroups such as RecyclerView.
• XML style for making BottomSheetDialog have rounded corners is adapted from this SO answer.
• Prevented the dismissal of BottomSheetDialogFragment upon touching outside/pulling it down via this method.
• Used a Custom ViewPager2 Transition via this answer.
• Expanding BottomSheetDialogFragment to a custom height was done with the help of this answer
• The code for finding LatLng bounds of the area of interest from this answer is used.
• The method of persisting a single instance of the repository w/o singleton pattern is based on this codelab.
• Flaticon for a few awesome icons.

⚙️ Installation:

Note: It will be easier to do the following via a phone.

1. Install the APK.
2. Allow App Installations from Unknown Sources, if requested.