This is app is created for #AndroidDevChallenge Week #4. It is a weather reporting application, but to make things more interesting I built the application that reports weather on Mars! I uses data from NASA's InSight Mars lander. The lander is located near the equator at location named - Elysium Planitia. The data is available through the
InSight: Mars Weather Service API

Unfortunately though currently the landers solar pannels are covered with dust and it is placed in power conservation mode and not all data is available. Currently only atmospheric pressure data is available. Hopefully all data will be available soon enough! For demonstration purposes missing data is generated.

My main motiviation for participating in these challenges was for updating my knowledge on android development. I was starting to get back into Android development and just in time the Jeptack compose went into Beta, and I decided that this is a very great time to learn this toolkit!

I had a really good time learning Jetpack Compose. Building dynamic UI, was quite enjoyable, and implementing various ideas was very intuitive.

I am happy, that I manage to draw custom composable for Compass, and also animate the compass needle, so it would look more interesting and would react to movement.

I also managed to implement SwipeToRefreshLayout like behaviour for refreshing the data. Learned a lot about gesture detection in Compose!

The weather cards can be expanded, to show more detail. Also created swipe to refresh like behaviour for refreshing weather data list.

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