Booksriver is an Android app designed to help you track what you're reading, write reviews, and follow other users. The app is built using Kotlin and Compose, utilizing best practices in the Model-View-ViewModel architecture pattern.
It's a pet project created to learn and explore the capabilities of Kotlin and Compose, therefore it's not available (yet...?) on the Play Store.
Books are fetched from the Google Books API, all the backend stuff is available in this repo.
Booksriver has a range of features to make tracking your reading experience an easy and enjoyable process. Here are some of the key features:
- 🌓 Night mode: switch to a dark background for comfortable reading in low light conditions
- 📖 Landscape and tablet support: optimized for larger screens
- 📝 Write reviews: give feedback on the books you've read and share your opinion with others
- 👥 Follow other users: get recommendations based on what other users are reading
The app is built using the latest technologies, such as Kotlin and Compose, and utilizes Retrofit and a REST backend written in Springboot. The code is open source, and anyone can download the code and run it on their own device.
If you want to try it out you can build it yourself. To install Booksriver, follow these steps:
- Clone this repository to your local machine
- Open the project in Android Studio
- Build and run the project on your device
- Buld and deploy the Backend Server
- Update the buildConfigField.API_BASE_URL inside build.gralde(app).
We welcome contributions from other developers. If you'd like to contribute to Booksriver, follow these steps:
- Fork the repository on GitHub
- Clone your fork to your local machine
- Make your changes and test them thoroughly
- Submit a pull request with your changes
