Code Style Guidelines for Kiwix-Android

Our code style guidelines is based on the Square's Android Style Guide.

Our code style is managed in version control and will be installed automatically when you clone the repo.

Only a few extra rules

• Line length is 100 characters
• FIXME must not be committed in the repository use TODO instead. FIXME can be used in your own local repository only.

Some DONT's

• Don't use Hungarian Notation like mContext mCount etc
• Don't use underscores in variable names
• All constants should be CAPS. e.g MINIMUM_TIMEOUT_ERROR_EXTERNAL
• Always use Locale.ENGLISH when using String.format() unless the format itself is locale dependent e.g. String query = String.format(Locale.ENGLISH,...
• Never concat null with "" (Empty String). It will become "null" e.g. String.equals("" + null, "null") == TRUE