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"Clean" Refactor Notes

In July 2021 I did a major refactor. Here's what I did:

  1. Migrate from Dagger to Hilt.
  2. Update Navigation Component.
  3. Decoupling.
    • Avoid sharing viewmodels. It makes unit testing easier when I can test fragments in isolation.
  4. Splitting business models into Entities and Dto's. This way I have a clear business model, network model, and caching model.
  5. Writing use cases.
    • Unidirectional data flow with MVI and kotlin sealed classes. (See Interactors)
  6. Refactor message handling system to a Queue.
  7. Migrate from Shared Preferences to DataStore.
  8. Migrate from Kotlin synthetics to ViewBinding.
  9. Write Unit tests for use-cases.

TODO

  1. Check out the new splash screen APIs
  2. Do a Compose refactor
    • I will create a new repo for this

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