An android application which uses NewsAPI for listing news

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NewsApp

An android application which uses NewsAPI for listing news.

Prerequisites

1. Check the App

If the app cannot list news, check the API key on build.gradle.kts(:app).

buildConfigField("String", "NEWS_API_KEY", "\"860eaf0ada084fea80bc2ea8480dc0af\"")

2. Ready to run.

Features

  • News Listing Feature
  • Caching Results (Offline Capability)
  • Pull to Refresh
  • Unit Tests

Tech Stack

  • Kotlin – Officially supported programming language for Android development by Google
  • Kotlin DSL – Alternative syntax to the Groovy DSL
  • Coroutines – Perform asynchronous operations
  • Flow – Handle the stream of data asynchronously
  • Android Architecture Components
    • LiveData – Notify views about data changes
    • Room – Persistence library
    • ViewModel – UI related data holder
    • ViewBinding – Allows to more easily write code that interacts with views
  • Hilt – Dependency Injection framework
  • Retrofit – Networking library
  • Moshi – A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java

Local Unit Tests

  • The project uses MockWebServer (scriptable web server) to test API interactions.

Screenshots

Architecture

GitHub

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