Weather Forecast App

A powerful and user-friendly app to get real-time weather updates, a 7-day forecast, and customize your weather experience.

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Overview

The Weather Forecast App provides accurate and up-to-date weather information for your current location or a selected city. With a user-friendly interface and robust architecture, the app ensures a seamless experience for weather updates.

Features

• Today Fragment:
  • Displays the current location's temperature, humidity, and weather conditions.
• Week Fragment:
  • Provides a 7-day weather forecast, including key details for each day.
• Settings Fragment:
  • Allows users to:
    • Switch between Metric and Imperial units.
    • Customize the app's theme (Light/Dark).
    • Search for and update the weather for different cities.
• Bottom Navigation Bar:
  • Quick navigation between Today, Week, and Settings fragments.

Tech Stack

• Java: Core language for development.
• XML: Designed the responsive and intuitive UI.
• MVVM Architecture: Ensures scalability, separation of concerns, and maintainability.
• Retrofit: Used for fetching weather data via RESTful APIs.
• Glide: Efficiently loads and displays weather-related images.

Screens

1. Today Fragment

• Displays real-time weather data:
  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Weather condition

2. Week Fragment

• Provides a detailed 7-day forecast with essential weather information.

3. Settings Fragment

• Theme customization (e.g., light or dark mode).
• City selection using a search bar.

Screenshorts

Today Weather	Week Weather	Setting

Installation

1. Clone this repository.

   git clone <repository-url>

2. Open the project in Android Studio.
3. Build and run the project on an emulator or physical device.

API Integration

The app fetches weather data using a weather API. Ensure you add your API key in the build.gradle or local.properties file:

API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

Dependencies

Here are the major libraries used in this project:

• Dagger Hilt: Dependency Injection
• Retrofit: REST API integration
• Glide: Image loading and processing

Add the following dependencies to your build.gradle file:

implementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android:<version>"
kapt "com.google.dagger:hilt-compiler:<version>"
implementation "com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:<version>"
implementation "com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:<version>"
kapt "com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:<version>"

Architecture

The app follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture:

• Model: Manages data, including API calls using Retrofit.
• View: UI components, including fragments for Today, Week, and Settings.
• ViewModel: Acts as a bridge between Model and View, ensuring clean separation of concerns.

How to Use

1. Launch the app.
2. Use the bottom navigation bar to switch between Today, Week, and Settings fragments.
3. In the Today fragment, view real-time weather data.
4. In the Week fragment, explore the 7-day forecast.
5. In the Settings fragment:
   • Change the theme.
   • Search for and select a city to update the weather data.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Contact

Developed by Rahul Joshi - GitHub: https://github.com/Rahul-JoshiG - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/prof-rahul-joshi - Email: prof.rahuljoshi@gmail.com