kickstarter/android-oss

Features

• Crowdfunding Apps - An Android application for discovering, backing, and sharing creative crowdfunding projects and campaigns.
• Crowdfunding Campaign Browsers - Provides a curated feed for browsing creative campaigns to find ideas worth backing financially.
• Crowdfunding Campaign Discovery - Provides curated browsing interfaces for discovering creative projects and campaigns to back.
• Crowdfunding Pledge Management - Provides a financial pledge system for backing campaigns and tracking active pledges with reward management.
• Crowdfunding Pledge Systems - Provides a financial pledge system for backing campaigns and tracking active pledges in exchange for rewards.
• Campaign Link Sharers - Send a campaign link to friends via social media or messaging apps to spread awareness.
• Fragment Navigation Frameworks - Manages screen transitions and back-stack operations through a Fragment-based navigation graph.
• Compile-Time Dependency Injection Frameworks - Uses Dagger 2 to generate dependency injection code at compile time, wiring the entire application graph.
• Model-View-ViewModel - Implements the MVVM pattern with data binding to separate presentation logic from Android lifecycle concerns.
• Retrofit REST Clients - Uses Retrofit with OkHttp to map REST endpoints to Java interfaces and manage HTTP connections.
• RxJava Integrations - Manages asynchronous data flows and event chains using RxJava observable sequences and functional operators.
• Image Loading and Caching - Ships a Picasso-based image loading pipeline with asynchronous fetching and automatic caching for smooth scrolling.
• Reactive SQLite Libraries - Wraps SQLite database operations into observable streams that emit table changes for reactive UI updates.
• Social Media Sharing Utilities - Provides UI utilities for sharing project details to external social media and messaging platforms.
• Open Source Applications - Official open-source Kickstarter Android app.

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