My Blog is an Multiplatform App built entirely with Kotlin. It follows Android design and development best practices.

The app is currently in development. There is no variant available in Play Store.

For the multiplatform (web) side, Kobweb API was used in the project. To put it briefly, Kobweb is an API that allows us to write a website using Kotlin.

My Blog uses the Gradle build system and can be imported directly into Android Studio (make sure you are using the latest stable version available here).

The debug and release build variants can be built and run.

Once you're up and running, you can refer to the learning journeys below to get a better understanding of which libraries and tools are being used, the reasoning behind the approaches to UI, architecture and more, and how all of these different pieces of the project fit together to create a complete app.

The My Blog app follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architectural design pattern and Clean Architecture design pattern.

The app contains the usual debug and release build variants.

The app was designed using Material 3 guidelines.

The Screens and UI elements are built entirely using Jetpack Compose.

This is a Kobweb project bootstrapped with the app/empty template.

This template is useful if you already know what you're doing and just want a clean slate. By default, it just creates a blank home page (which prints to the console so you can confirm it's working)

If you are still learning, consider instantiating the app template (or one of the examples) to see actual, working projects.

First, run the development server by typing the following command in a terminal under the site folder:

$ cd site
$ kobweb run

Open http://localhost:8080 with your browser to see the result.

You can use any editor you want for the project, but we recommend using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition downloaded using the Toolbox App.

Press Q in the terminal to gracefully stop the server.

Feel free to edit / add / delete new components, pages, and API endpoints! When you make any changes, the site will indicate the status of the build and automatically reload when ready.

When you are ready to ship, you should shutdown the development server and then export the project using:

kobweb export

When finished, you can run a Kobweb server in production mode:

kobweb run --env prod

If you want to run this command in the Cloud provider of your choice, consider disabling interactive mode since nobody is sitting around watching the console in that case anyway. To do that, use:

kobweb run --env prod --notty

Kobweb also supports exporting to a static layout which is compatible with static hosting providers, such as GitHub Pages, Netlify, Firebase, any presumably all the others. You can read more about that approach here: https://bitspittle.dev/blog/2022/staticdeploy

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