This document describes how to build an Android weather app in Kotlin. The app displays weather information for a given location, including temperature, minimum and maximum temperatures. It uses an API to retrieve weather data. The app's user interface is defined in XML layout files. Kotlin files handle API requests, data parsing and updating the UI. Building the app involves setting up the project in Android Studio, creating the UI, making API calls, and updating views with the weather response. The document provides the code examples needed to build the basic functionality of the weather app.

1. Android Kotlin Weather App
Project
Hello there, Android enthusiasts! Today we will look at and learn how to
develop an Android project with a Weather application in Android Studio. In
this article, we’ll learn about the entire project’s development.
An Android application that displays the weather of a given place together
with the minimum and maximum temperatures is developed in Kotlin. An
effective and dependable programming language called Kotlin makes it
possible to create apps for Android devices.
About Android Kotlin Weather App
This is a simple project for those just learning the fundamentals of developing
Android applications. This Android app’s user interface contains a bunch of
text views that display the city’s name, the time at which the weather report
was last updated, temperature, and minimum as well as maximum
temperatures.
Details about the user interface are as follows :
1. The location is shown in a text view at the top of the user interface.
2. The time when the weather report was last updated is displayed below the
location.

2. 3. The current temperature, as well as the minimum and highest values, are
displayed beneath the time.
Prerequisites For Weather App Using
Android Kotlin
To develop this Android Weather Application, the requirements and
prerequisites are as follows:
1. Kotlin: You must first familiarize yourself with Kotlin programming. It is
essential because Kotlin, a programming language, will be used to create the
app’s code.
2. XML: Another crucial component of our Android application is XML. The
application’s user interface will be made using it.
3. Android Studio: The foundation of our application is Android Studio
because that is how we will make it. Android Studio also offers a virtual
Android device that can be used to test an application’s functionality.
Develop an Android Kotlin Weather
Application in Android Studio
We’ll now start working on developing an Android Weather application.
Before actually implementing and executing the code, we will learn about its
inner workings.

3. In order to make this Android Weather application, you must follow a set of
instructions. We are here to guide you through each step of creating an app.
1. At the location of your choice, extract all the files from the downloaded zip
file.
2. Launch Android Studio.
3. Open by selecting File.
4. Locate and choose the extracted folder, then select OK.
The Android Weather application’s source code has been successfully opened
in Android Studio.
1. ‘activity_main.xml’ is an XML file that is responsible for creating the user
interface of the home screen of our Android application.
● The code defines a constraint layout with two child layouts: a linear
layout and a constraint layout.
● The linear layout contains two TextViews, one for the location and
one for the update time.
● The ConstraintLayout contains four TextViews, one for the weather
status, one for the temperature, one for the minimum temperature,
and one for the maximum temperature.
● The code uses guidelines to position the child layouts and
TextViews.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"

4. android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@drawable/background"
tools:context=".MainActivity"
>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:padding="10dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0">
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Guideline
android:id="@+id/glMainLocation"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.12" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/linearLayout"

5. android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="1dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="1dp"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:orientation="vertical"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/glMainLocation"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/glMainLocation">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_location"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:text="@string/location"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="34sp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_update_time"
android:layout_width="match_parent"

6. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:text="@string/updated_at"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</LinearLayout>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Guideline
android:id="@+id/glMainTemp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.34" />
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:id="@+id/constraintLayout"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.578"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/glMainTemp"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0">

7. <TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_status"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/clear_sky"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_temp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:text="@string/_24_c"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="80sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
app:flow_horizontalAlign="center"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"

8. app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tv_status" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_min_temp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/min_temp"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/tv_max_temp"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/tv_max_temp" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_max_temp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="18dp"
android:text="@string/max_temp"
android:textColor="@color/white"

9. android:textSize="24sp"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/tv_min_temp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tv_feels_like" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_feels_like"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
android:text="@string/feels_like"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
app:flow_horizontalAlign="center"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/tv_temp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tv_temp" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Guideline
android:id="@+id/glMainCard"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"

10. android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.72" />
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Guideline
android:id="@+id/glMainForecastBtn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.90" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
2. A pact between the client and the server is laid down in the kotlin file
“ApiInterface.kt.” The current weather in a specified city can be obtained by
the client using the getCurrentWeather() method.
● The code defines an interface called ApiInterface.
● The interface declares a method called getCurrentWeather().
● The getCurrentWeather() method takes three parameters: city,
units, and apiKey.
● The getCurrentWeather() method returns a Response object of type
CurrentWeather.
● The @GET annotation tells Retrofit that the getCurrentWeather()
method should make a GET request to the weather endpoint.
● The @Query annotations tell Retrofit that the city, units, and apiKey
parameters should be encoded as query parameters in the GET
request.
3. ’RetrofitInstance.kt’ is a Kotlin file that is responsible for the following
functions:

11. ● The code creates a Retrofit object that is configured to use the
GsonConverterFactory.
● The Retrofit object is used to create an ApiInterface object.
● The ApiInterface object is used to make HTTP requests to the
weather API.
● The Retrofit object is created using the Retrofit.Builder() class. The
Builder class takes several parameters, including the base URL of
the API and the converter factory that will be used to convert the
JSON response from the API into Java objects.
● The GsonConverterFactory is a converter factory that can be used to
convert JSON into Java objects.
4. ‘MainActivity.kt’ is a Kotlin file that is responsible for the functioning of our
Android weather application.
● The getCurrentWeather() method makes an HTTP request to the
weather API using the RetrofitInstance.api object.
● The getCurrentWeather() method catches any IOException or
HttpException exceptions that may be thrown.
● The getCurrentWeather() method uses the withContext() function to
run the code on the main thread.
● The getCurrentWeather() method updates the UI with the weather
information.
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
private lateinit var binding: ActivityMainBinding
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
setContentView(binding.root)
getCurrentWeather()
}

12. private fun getCurrentWeather() {
GlobalScope.launch(Dispatchers.IO){
val response = try {
RetrofitInstance.api.getCurrentWeather("mumbai","metric", "xxxx")
}catch (e:IOException){
Toast.makeText(applicationContext,"{${e.message}}",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
return@launch
}catch(e:HttpException){
Toast.makeText(applicationContext,"{${e.message}}",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
return@launch
}
if(response.isSuccessful && response.body()!=null){
withContext(Dispatchers.Main){
val data = response.body()!!
binding.apply {
tvStatus.text = data.weather[0].description.uppercase()
tvLocation.text = "${data.name}n${data.sys.country}"
tvTemp.text = "${data.main.temp.toInt()}°C"
tvFeelsLike.text = "Feels like: ${data.main.feels_like.toInt()}°C"
tvMinTemp.text = "Min temp: ${data.main.temp_min.toInt()}°C"
tvMaxTemp.text = "Max temp: ${data.main.temp_max.toInt()}°C"
tvUpdateTime.text = "Last Update: ${

13. SimpleDateFormat(
"hh:mm a",
Locale.ENGLISH
).format(data.dt * 1000)
}"
}
}
}
}
}
}
Summary
So in this Android Kotlin Weather App Project, we learned how to utilize
Android Studio to create an application that shows the weather in a specific
area. This Android project is appropriate for beginners since it will strengthen
your capacity to create user interfaces that meet the requirements of the
application and incorporate fundamental functions using logical
programming. We sincerely hope you enjoyed it, and we have no doubt that
you will enjoy applying it.