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.

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Architecture