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Karma

A library that provide an opinionated way to create Android app with MVI pattern. It supports React's-ish time travel debugging and diff render.

Gradle

In your root build.gradle

allprojects {
  repositories {
    ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
}

In your module build.gradle

dependencies {
  final karmaVersion = "1.3.0"
  implementation "com.github.esafirm.karma:karma-core:$karmaVersion"
  implementation "com.github.esafirm.karma:karma-renderer:$karmaVersion"
  implementation "com.github.esafirm.karma:karma-timetravel:$karmaVersion"
  implementation "com.github.esafirm.karma:karma-timetravel-dashboard:$karmaVersion"
}

Modules

The library currently separated into four modules:

1. Core
2. Renderer
3. Time Travel
4. Time Travel Dashboard

If we create a dependency tree, it would look like this:

        core
      ___/\___
     /        \
renderer     time travel
                \
            time travel dashboard

• core module is standalone
• renderer needs core
• time travel needs core
• time travel dasboard needs core & time travel

Usage

Core

Karma core introduce how you can create an MVI-ish application with minimal setup.

To create a screen, what you need is:

1. A State
2. A Presenter
3. An Android Component to bind it all together

State refer to a view state. For example we have this simple state

data class SimpleScreenState(
  val textLineOne: String,
  val textLineTwo: String
)

Presenter is a place that we call all our action that change a state.

class SimplePresenter : UiPresenter<SimpleScreenState>(action) {

  override fun initialState() = SimpleScreenState("a", "b")

  // We change textLineOne and retain our current textLineTwo
  fun changeLineOne(text: String) = setState {
    copy(textLineOne = text)
  }
}

To initialize Karma, you need to now os how to bind all the component together

fun <S, P : KarmaPresenter<S>> bind(
  lifecycleOwner: LifecycleOwner,
  viewModelStoreOwner: ViewModelStoreOwner,
  presenterCreator: () -> P,
  render: (S, P) -> Unit
)

And this is an example of Karma.bind called in AppCompatActivity

Karma.bind(
  lifecycleOwner = this,
  viewModelStoreOwner = this,
  presenter = { SimplePresenter() },
  render = { state, presenter ->
    // do render
  }
)

Or, we could use the extension function to make it more simple

bind(
  presenter = { SimplePresenter() },
  render = renderer::render
)

Renderer

Renderer enable us to control on how we can render state

renderer<State, Presenter> {
  init {
    // This will only called once.
    // Could be used to intialize some views or setup the listener
  }

  diff(State::data) {
    // This will only be called when state.data is changed
  }
	
  event(State::event) {
    // This will use special state called SingleEvent<E> that have internal flag
	// This can be used for notification state (ex: show toast)
  }

  always {
    // This will be always called
  }
}

Time Travel

TBD

Time Travel Dashboard

TBD

Sample

You can find complete usage of Karma in :samples:app module

License

MIT @ Esa Firman