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Android Utility belt — Collection of dependencies for a greenfield project

[ Originally published at https://mahendranv.github.io/posts/android-gradle-deps-kit ]

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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dependencies in almost all your applications, you can’t just grab them from the previous project because it might be an outdated version.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!!

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.

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'

📌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'

📌 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

RXJava

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

📌 rxjava   📌rxandroid


Serialization

Moshi

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

📌 moshi   📌moshi-codegen

GSON

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

📌 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'

📌 viewmodel-ktx   📌 livedata-ktx

UI

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

📌 material   📌constraintlayout

See also  Android — Basic Hilt setup with viewmodel + fragment

📌 recyclerview

Fragment

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

📌 fragment-ktx

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'

📌 navigation-fragment-ktx   📌navigation-ui-ktx

📌 navigation-testing

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"

📌 room-ktx


Dependency injection

Dagger

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


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

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

📌 dagger

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'
}

📌 hilt-android   📌hilt-android-testing


Image loaders

Glide

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

📌 glide

Coil

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

📌 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'

📌 Google truth

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