What is Urban Crawl

Urban Crawl is a tiny catalogue of a few selected cities that you can carry along, and explore the interesting places around these cities.

Why was Urban Crawl made

Urban Crawl is a reference app from Akamai Developer, which demonstrates the capabilities and usage of Akamai's MAP SDK (https://developer.akamai.com/tools/map/)

The source code of Urban Crawl will help the app developers understand how MAP SDK can be used in different scenarios, and how different functions of MAP SDK work.

How to use the code

• Clone the repository in Android Studio below 3.0 (See known issues)
• Download a copy of MAP SDK bundle from your Luna Portal
• Replace the following keys with your own keys:
  • MAP SDK License Key, in res/xml/android_sdk_init.xml
  • Replace font certificate keys, in res/values/font_certs.xml
  • If you're using Crashlytics, replace it with your own Crashlytics keys.
• Build and Run (and let us know if you run into any issues)

Detailed instructions, to setup MAP SDK, can be found in the Getting Started Guide.

How is the code organized

The following points will help the developer understand the structure of the code:

• All the activities are located inside com.akamaidev.urbancrawl package.
• The app uses simple MVP design pattern.
• All the network activities are done either inside, or initiated from the Models.
• All the Presenters and Models are located inside the presenters and models packages.
• The app uses GSON to convert the JSON that the REST API returns, and these GSON classes are inside jsonobjs package.
• All the other helper classes, are stored inside helpers package. These are classes which have methods for Analytics, Logging, Pickers, Events, and Adapters.

MAP SDK Specific instructions

• MAP SDK provides wrappers for OkHttp, Retrofit and Picasso, and these wrappers are stored under MAPSDKWrappers package.
• The Default Networking Client uses AkaUrlConnection to make Internet calls using MAP SDK
• The CityDetailsModel uses Retrofit to interact with our REST API, and uses the Retrofit Wrapper to make these HTTP calls go through MAP SDK
• The PlaceModel uses Volley to interact with the REST API, and uses the OkHttpWrapper to make the HTTP calls go through MAP SDK
• All the models are stored in models package
• The ImageLoader class contains the centralized Picasso code to download images, and uses the AkaPicassoDownloader as Picasso's downloader. the ImageLoader class is under helper package.

The code tries to be self explanatory, but write to us in case you have any questions.

Known Issues

• Like few of the libraries, we have noticed build errors while compiling on Android Studio 3.0, mainly because of the new Gradle and Gradle Wrapper versions. We'll find a stable fix to it and update the repo as soon as possible.

Write to us at devrel@akamai.com for any questions.