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Spent the last few months building a walking tracker app for Android

DEV Community·sunior·22 days ago
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Hey everyone, Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a side project called WalkLog — an open-source walking tracker app for Android. I originally started it as a small learning project, but it slowly turned into my attempt at building something closer to a real-world Android application instead of another simple demo app. One thing I especially wanted to focus on was architecture and maintainability as the project grew. Instead of putting everything into a single module, I experimented with a more modular structure using: Kotlin Jetpack Compose Room Hilt WorkManager Health Connect Glance Widgets Some things I learned while building it Managing UI state in Compose gets harder as apps grow At first, state management felt simple, but once features started increasing, keeping UI state predictable became much more important. Separation of concerns really matters Splitting responsibilities between data, domain, and presentation layers helped a lot once the project became larger and harder to manage.…

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