CocktailRecipes is a sleek, modern Android application that brings the world of mixology to your fingertips! Whether you're a professional bartender looking for inspiration or a curious beginner wanting to impress friends at your next gathering, this app has everything you need to create the perfect drink.
Built with cutting-edge Android development practices, this app also showcases the power of AI-assisted development using:
- BMad's Cursor Custom Agents Rules Generator - For automatic rule and custom agent generation
- Cursor Memory Bank - For enhanced development workflow and context tracking
- 🔎 Discover - Browse a curated list of popular cocktails from around the world
- 🔍 Search - Find the perfect drink by name or ingredient
- ❤️ Favorites - Save recipes you love for quick access, even offline
- 📝 Details - Get comprehensive instructions, ingredient lists, and beautiful images
- ⚙️ Settings - Customize your experience with theme selection and cache management
- 📊 Analytics - View API performance metrics and optimize app experience
- 🎲 Surprise Me! - Shake your device to discover random cocktails with beautiful animations
- 🧪 Filter Lab - Apply multiple filters like category, glass type, and alcohol content
- 🌿 Ingredient Explorer - Browse ingredients in an interactive hexagon grid and discover related cocktails
- 🥤 Mocktail Corner - Explore a garden-inspired section dedicated to alcohol-free drinks
The world's most expensive cocktail is the "Diamonds Are Forever" martini, priced at $22,600 at the Ritz-Carlton in Tokyo. It includes a one-carat diamond at the bottom of the glass!
All our delicious recipes come from TheCocktailDB API, providing comprehensive information about cocktails, including ingredients, instructions, and mouthwatering images.
- 🍸 Cocktail enthusiasts looking for new recipes
- 🏠 Home bartenders wanting to expand their repertoire
- 🎉 Party planners seeking the perfect signature drink
- 🔰 Beginners taking their first steps into mixology
The application follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture pattern with Clean Architecture principles:
- Data Layer: API integration and local database for offline access
- Domain Layer: Business logic and use cases to keep your drinks perfect
- UI Layer: Beautiful Jetpack Compose UI components and responsive ViewModels
- BaseViewModel Pattern: All ViewModels inherit from a common base class for standardized state management and error handling
- ✅ Project Setup & Architecture
- Created project structure with MVVM architecture
- Set up dependency injection with Hilt
- Configured UI theme and styling with dark mode support
- ✅ API Integration
- Created data models for API responses
- Implemented network layer with Retrofit
- Set up repository pattern with caching strategy
- Added error handling for API calls (including custom Moshi adapter for API quirks)
- ✅ Core Features
- Home screen with popular cocktails list (including pull-to-refresh, loading/error/empty states)
- Cocktail detail screen (layout, ingredients, instructions, image loading)
- Search functionality (by name/ingredient, history, recently viewed, refined UI/state management)
- Favorites feature (database, DAO, toggle functionality, favorites screen)
- ✅ Polishing & UI Enhancements
- Added animated loading indicators (pulsating, shimmer effect, cocktail glass animation)
- Created contextual error screens with different error types and retry actions
- Added empty state designs for various scenarios (empty favorites, no search results, etc.)
- Enhanced UI states across all screens with smooth transitions
- ✅ Offline Capability
- Implemented database caching strategy for offline viewing of cocktails
- Set up WorkManager for background syncing of cocktail data
- Added NetworkMonitor for detecting and responding to connection changes
- Created offline mode indicator with sync action
- ✅ Testing Infrastructure
- Created fake/mock implementations of data sources
- Implemented test data factory for consistent test data
- Added comprehensive testing utilities for repository testing
- ✅ Unit Testing
- Wrote unit tests for repository implementations
- Created ViewModel tests
- Tested use cases and business logic
- Added testing utilities and fixtures
- Completed FakeCocktailRepository by implementing the missing isFavorite method
- ✅ UI Testing
- Set up Compose UI testing framework with test utilities
- Implemented navigation tests for all app paths
- Created tests for all main user flows
- Added accessibility compliance testing
- Simplified UI tests to resolve dependency and reference issues
- ✅ Bug Fixes & Refinements
- Fixed database setup issues (duplicate classes, missing migrations)
- Resolved Hilt duplicate bindings
- Corrected repository logic for details fetching and favorites
- Addressed API JSON parsing errors
- Fixed database operations to run on background threads, preventing UI freezes
- ✅ Settings Screen
- Created PreferencesManager using DataStore for preferences
- Implemented theme selection capabilities
- Added cache management options
- Created About section with app information
- Connected settings to app behavior
- ✅ API Optimization Enhancements
- Added HTTP caching to reduce API calls
- Configured OkHttp cache interceptor with appropriate cache size
- Implemented cache control headers for GET requests
- Added cache invalidation logic for time-sensitive data
- Created mechanism to force refresh data regardless of cache
- Implemented rate limiting protection
- Created rate limit interceptor to track API calls
- Added exponential backoff for rate limit responses
- Implemented comprehensive UI feedback when rate limits are reached
- Created BaseViewModel pattern to standardize rate limit error handling
- Added analytics for API call performance
- Created performance tracking interceptor to log call durations
- Implemented error rate tracking mechanism
- Added reporting system for slow or failed API calls
- Created API performance dashboard with metrics visualization
- Added HTTP caching to reduce API calls
- ✅ "Surprise Me!" Random Cocktail Feature
- Created a "Surprise Me" floating action button on Home screen
- Implemented Random Cocktail API integration using random.php endpoint
- Added Shake-to-Activate gesture functionality with ShakeDetector
- Implemented 3D Card Flip animation for result reveal
- Created custom loading animation (pouring cocktail)
- Added navigation to cocktail details on selection
- ✅ Ingredient Explorer Feature
- Created Ingredient Explorer screen with hexagon grid layout
- Implemented API integration for listing all ingredients
- Added interactive animations with zoom/explode effects
- Created mind-map visualization for ingredient relationships
- Implemented navigation between ingredients and related cocktails
- ✅ Advanced Filtering Options
- Created filter screen with "mixology lab" theme
- Implemented category, glass type, and alcoholic/non-alcoholic filtering
- Added animated filter results with staggered transitions
- Created filter preferences persistence using DataStore
- Implemented filter combination logic for complex searches
- Optimized performance with parallel API loading
- ✅ Architectural Improvements
- Standardized all ViewModels to use BaseViewModel pattern
- Implemented consistent event-based approach with handleEvent method
- Created unified error handling system across the application
- Updated all UI screens to use proper coroutine scope for suspend functions
- Added consistent user feedback for API errors
- ✅ "Mocktail Corner" Feature
- Added dedicated section for non-alcoholic drinks
- Designed "garden-inspired" UI theme with animations
- Implemented special visual effects (water/fruit animations)
- Added promotional content highlighting benefits of alcohol-free options
- Created wave-style scroll animation
- Implemented toggle for animations (accessibility feature)
- Added support for landscape mode
- Optimized dark mode appearance
- Added in-memory caching for better performance
- Created unit tests for MocktailViewModel
- Added UI tests for MocktailCornerScreen
- 🚧 "Mocktail Corner" Feature
- Adding dedicated section for non-alcoholic drinks
- Designing "garden-inspired" UI theme
- Implementing special visual effects and animations
- 🔮 "Browse by First Letter" Feature
- Creating alphabetical browsing with rotary wheel UI
- Adding "pouring results" animation when letter is selected
- Implementing lazy loading for letter-based results
- 🔮 General UI/UX Refinements
- Exploring neumorphism design style
- Implementing subtle haptic feedback
- Designing bottom navigation bar with bar theme
- 🔮 Performance Optimizations
- Implementing memory caching for frequently accessed data
- Optimizing image loading and caching further
- Enhancing app startup time
- UI: Jetpack Compose - For beautiful, fluid interfaces
- Architecture: MVVM + Clean Architecture - For maintainable, testable code
- Networking: Retrofit + OkHttp - For reliable API communication
- Database: Room - For seamless local storage
- Dependency Injection: Hilt - For clean, modular components
- Image Loading: Coil - For fast, efficient image loading
- Concurrency: Kotlin Coroutines + Flow - For smooth, reactive experiences
- Offline Support: WorkManager - For background processing and syncing
- Preferences: DataStore - For storing user preferences
- Testing: JUnit, Mockito, Turbine, Compose UI Testing - For robust, reliable code
- Clone this repository
- Open the project in Android Studio
- Build and run on your device or emulator
- Start mixing delicious drinks!
Coming soon! Stay tuned for visual previews of our beautiful UI.
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:
- Report bugs
- Suggest new features
- Submit pull requests
This project is available under the MIT License.