Roamio – Smart Travel Companion

Roamio is a modern travel companion app designed to enhance your journeys with real-time weather updates, local attractions, restaurant recommendations, currency exchange rates, and more. Built with the latest Android technologies, Roamio aims to deliver a seamless, secure, and delightful user experience for travelers worldwide.

✨ Features

• Weather Information:
  Get current weather conditions and forecasts using the OpenWeatherMap API.

• Local Attractions:
  Discover nearby places of interest with integrated Wikipedia API data.

• Restaurant Recommendations:
  Find top-rated local restaurants and reviews via the Yelp API (or similar).

• Currency Exchange Rates:
  Stay updated on currency exchange rates to manage your finances abroad.

️ Key Technologies

• Kotlin:
  Primary development language, leveraging coroutines for asynchronous programming and Flow for reactive streams.

• Jetpack Compose:
  Modern, declarative UI toolkit for building responsive and beautiful interfaces, including custom layouts, animations, and theming.

• Clean Architecture with MVVM:
  Clean architecture with Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) for a robust, testable, and maintainable codebase.

• Dependency Injection (Koin):
  Simplifies dependency management and testing.

• Room Database:
  Local data storage with support for complex queries, migrations, and real-time UI updates via Flow and coroutines.

• Ktor & OkHttp:
  Efficient network calls and monitoring for API integrations.

• Security:
  Secure network communication (HTTPS/TLS) and encrypted storage (Jetpack Security).

• Multi-Module Architecture:
  Modularized codebase for better feature segregation and scalability.

• Testing:
  Comprehensive unit and UI tests using JUnit, Espresso, MockK, and TDD practices.

• CI/CD:
  Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.

• Future Advanced Topics:
  Integration with custom sensors, real-time features via WebSockets, and experimentation with AI/ML models using ML Kit or TensorFlow Lite.

Roadmap

1. MVP Development

   • Weather, attractions, restaurants, and currency features
   • Core UI with Jetpack Compose
   • Basic MVVM architecture

2. Feature Expansion

   • Make it scalable
   • Enhanced security
   • Make it multi-module

3. Testing & Quality

   • Increase test coverage
   • Implement CI/CD pipeline

4. Future Advanced Integrations

   • Real-time updates (WebSockets)
   • AI/ML-powered recommendations

5. Release & Publishing

   • Optimize performance
   • Prepare for Google Play Store launch

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/roamio.git

2. Open in Android Studio.
3. Configure API keys for OpenWeatherMap, Wikipedia, Yelp, and your chosen currency API.
4. Build and run the app on your device or emulator.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open issues or submit pull requests for new features, bug fixes, or improvements.

License

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