[_c7zm]

If you plan to maintain the application in the future, using MVC/MVP/MVVM patterns will reduce the cognitive load, allowing you to implement new features and fix bugs much faster. I also noticed that you started writing this small application from May 10 to September 13 (with 'First Production' commits on September 7), which is almost 4 months. However, such an application can usually be written within 1 month at most (with design patterns), even if the developer is a beginner. The further the application develops, the harder it will be to maintain, because too much refactoring will be required (large chunks of code will need to be deleted or replaced, which increases the risk of new bugs). In addition, inheritance is necessary so that, through polymorphism, implementations can be replaced without introducing new bugs and while extending functionality. In short, there needs to be a balance between inheritance and refactoring so that the application can be maintained for decades.

[ijuarezz]

Thanks for the feedback. This project was an excuse to learn Android/Kotlin and now that the app is working I'll look into splitting MainActivity.kt I want to start with the UI since the Composables functions are primed for modularity.

[Etheryte]

This is silly, I'm not even the author of the linked app, so I'm not sure what you're on about. Splitting up a few hundred lines of code would be nice, sure, but it's not even remotely as big of a problem as you try to make it out to be.

[ijuarezz]

Thanks for noticing the comments. I usually start writing pseudo-code which then naturally morphs into line comments. I'm using Android Studio and found the expand/collpase feature a very useful way to zoom in and out of the code when needed. The problem is that it doesn't force to think modularly since the collapsed sections/functions already kinda look like separate modules.