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Android Utility belt — Collection of dependencies for a greenfield project

#android #gradle

Starting an android project will bring in a new set of challenges 👀 aka adding tons of Gradle dependencies.

Even though you use these dependencies in almost all your applications, you can't just grab them from the previous project because it might be an outdated version. By the time you find the latest version and add it to the project, you'd lose half the energy. Coming to the point!!

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In this post, I composed a list of dependencies that I use in most of my projects. They're at the latest version when I write it(Oct 2021). For convenience, hyperlinked the maven central page so that picking the latest version is just a click away.

I highly recommend using this template project for greenfield projects. From DI/logger to instrumentation test everything has been perfectly set up. Though, the network dependencies are not present in the template. So, look up below and add dependencies as you see fit.

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Network

OkHttp3 

implementation(platform("com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-bom:4.9.2"))
implementation("com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp")
implementation("com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor")

or

implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.9.2'
implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:4.9.2'
testImplementation("com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver:4.9.2")
implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:mockwebserver3:5.0.0-alpha.2'
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📌okhttp-bom   📌 logging-interceptor

📌 mockwebserver   📌 mockwebserver3

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Retrofit 

implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.9.0'

implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.9.0'
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-moshi:2.9.0'

implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava2:2.9.0'
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava3:2.9.0'
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📌 retrofit   📌converter-gson

📌 converter-moshi   📌 adapter-rxjava2

📌 adapter-rxjava3

Threading and dispatchers

Coroutines 

implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:1.5.2'
implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:1.5.2'
testImplementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-test:1.5.2'
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📌coroutines-core   📌 coroutines-android

📌 coroutines-test

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RXJava 

  implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava3:rxjava:3.1.2'    
  implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava3:rxandroid:3.0.0'
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📌 rxjava   📌rxandroid

Serialization

Moshi 

implementation 'com.squareup.moshi:moshi:1.12.0'
implementation 'com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin-codegen:1.12.0'
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📌 moshi   📌moshi-codegen

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GSON 

implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.8'
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📌 gson

Jetpack

Following dependencies are also available in Google maven.

Livedata / viewmodel 

implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:2.3.1'
implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-livedata-ktx:2.3.1'
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📌 viewmodel-ktx   📌 livedata-ktx

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UI 

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.4.0'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.1.1'
implementation 'androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.2.0'
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📌 material   📌constraintlayout

📌 recyclerview

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Fragment 

implementation 'androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx:1.3.6'
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📌 fragment-ktx

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Navigation 

implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:2.3.5'
implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:2.3.5'


androidTestImplementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-testing:2.3.5'
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📌 navigation-fragment-ktx   📌navigation-ui-ktx

📌 navigation-testing

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Room - DB 

 def room_version = "2.3.0"

implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:$room_version"
kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"
 // optional - Kotlin Extensions and Coroutines support for Room
implementation "androidx.room:room-ktx:$room_version"
// optional - Test helpers
testImplementation "androidx.room:room-testing:$room_version"
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📌 room-ktx

Dependency injection

Dagger

Guide: https://developer.android.com/training/dependency-injection/dagger-android

// app level Gradle
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'


{
    implementation 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.39.1'
  kapt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.39.1'
}
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📌 dagger

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Hilt

Guide: https://developer.android.com/training/dependency-injection/hilt-android#groovy

// project level gradle
buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.google.dagger:hilt-android-gradle-plugin:2.39.1'
    }
}

// app level gradle
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
apply plugin: 'dagger.hilt.android.plugin'

dependencies {
    implementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android:2.39.1"
    kapt "com.google.dagger:hilt-compiler:2.39.1"

    implementation 'com.google.dagger:hilt-android-testing:2.39.1'
}
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📌 hilt-android   📌hilt-android-testing

Image loaders

Glide 

implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.12.0'
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📌 glide

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Coil 

implementation 'io.coil-kt:coil:1.4.0'
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📌 coil

Testing 

testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.13.2'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.3'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.4.0'

testImplementation 'com.google.truth:truth:1.1.3'
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📌 Google truth

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