Effective TDD on Android with Kotlin

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Kotlin app built with an MVP testable layer that calls the public Chuck Norris API to show a random joke and a keyword search. Tests drive behavior: presenter requests a random joke on start, view renders text and image, search debounces empty input, RecyclerView gets two items and shows an empty-state when results are zero. Stack uses Kotlin + coroutines, Arrow functional helpers, plus Mockito and JUnit; live demo crashes briefly but repository branches run.

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1. 0:00Introduction to TDD
2. 1:04TDD cycles and app overview
3. 3:40First test for random joke
4. 6:35Rendering joke text
5. 11:38Rendering joke image
6. 15:58Search jokes by keyword
7. 17:06Handling empty search text
8. 23:30Displaying search results
9. 28:53Empty search results handling
10. 32:15Refactoring presenter code
11. 33:47Live app demonstration
12. 36:27Q&A on TDD and testing

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