HackerNewsApp

Hacker News Android App - Made with Kotlin

Simple app that request, the latests HackerNews posts and allows to delete items from the client. The news are saved into a local database.

Features:

• List view of articles about Android recently published in Hacker News
• Load latest articles when pull down (Pull to refresh)
• You can delete articles to not receive them anymore by sliding it to the left (Swipe to delete)
• You can view the articles within the application (WebView)

Libraries:

• Retrofit to make api calls to an HTTP web service.
• Moshi which handles the deserialization of the returned JSON to Kotlin data objects.
• Room for local database storage.

Components from the Jetpack library:

• ViewModel
• Data Binding with binding adapters
• Navigation with the SafeArgs plugin for parameter passing between fragments

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