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igorwojda/android-showcase

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TLDR

A sample Android music-discovery app built to demonstrate how to structure a production-ready mobile app using Jetpack Compose, Clean Architecture, and feature modules, a reference project, not a finished product.

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    What it does
      Browse albums
      Fetch from Last.fm
      Cache locally
    Architecture
      Clean Architecture
      Feature modules
      Presentation layer
      Data layer
    Tech stack
      Kotlin
      Jetpack Compose
      Room
      Coroutines
    Quality
      JUnit tests
      Mockk mocks
      Detekt linting
      GitHub Actions CI
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USE CASE 1

Use as a blueprint when setting up Clean Architecture layers in your own Android Kotlin app.

USE CASE 2

Study how feature modules keep screens self-contained and prevent cross-area breakage.

USE CASE 3

Copy the GitHub Actions CI setup to add automated linting and unit tests to your Android project.

USE CASE 4

Learn how Jetpack Compose, Room, and Coroutines fit together in a real multi-screen app.

Tech stack

KotlinJetpack ComposeCoroutinesFlowRoomJUnitMockkDetekt

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires Android Studio with Kotlin support and a device or emulator to run the app.

In plain English

Android Showcase is a sample Android application built to demonstrate how to structure a production-ready mobile app using modern tools and patterns. The app itself is a music discovery tool: it fetches album information from the Last.fm music API and displays it in a browseable list, with a detail view for each album and a favorites screen still in development. It is not a finished product for end users but a reference project for Android developers who want to see how the pieces fit together. The project uses Kotlin as its programming language and builds its screens with Jetpack Compose, Google's approach to constructing Android UIs in code rather than XML layouts. For background work like network calls and data loading, it uses Coroutines and Flow, which are Kotlin tools for managing tasks that happen asynchronously without freezing the screen. Data retrieved from the network is cached locally using Room, a database library that stores information on the device. The code is organized around Clean Architecture, a pattern that separates an app into three distinct layers: presentation (what the user sees), domain (the business rules), and data (where information comes from and how it is stored). On top of that structure, the project uses feature modules, meaning each screen or section of the app lives in its own self-contained code package. This keeps different parts of the app from tangling together and makes it easier to work on one area without accidentally breaking another. Testing is built in throughout. The project uses JUnit for unit tests and Mockk for creating controlled test substitutes. Static analysis tools including Detekt and Ktlint scan the code for formatting problems and potential bugs before anything is submitted. A CI pipeline on GitHub Actions runs all of these checks automatically on every pull request. The README covers the full architecture with diagrams, explains each layer and module type, and lists every library with a short description of its role. It is aimed at Android developers who want a single concrete reference showing how all of these tools work together in one project, rather than piecing together separate documentation for each tool individually.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using igorwojda/android-showcase as a reference, help me set up Clean Architecture layers, presentation, domain, and data, in my Android Kotlin project.
Prompt 2
Show me how to add a new feature module to an Android project structured like android-showcase, including how to wire it into the navigation graph.
Prompt 3
Based on android-showcase, explain how to use Coroutines and Flow to load data from a REST API and display it in a Jetpack Compose screen.
Prompt 4
Help me write a Mockk unit test for a ViewModel in a project that follows the android-showcase architecture.
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