This is the sample News app, showing top headlines from different news sources.
- On app launch user needs to be authenticated using google signin.
- When user signs in, tabbed view opens with top headlines in first tab and second tab showing different news sources (from https://newsapi.org)
- each News item can be viewed by clicking or can be saved into favorites.
This app demonstrates the following:
- Mavericks to manage state.
- Retrofit to make api calls to an HTTP web service.
- Picasso to load and cache images by URL.
- Hilt for DI
- Data Binding with binding adapters
- Room for local database storage.
- Flow to receive live updates from a database.
- Coroutines for asynchronous programming.
- Fragments for UI.
- RecyclerView to display list of news data
- TabLayout to display tabs horizontally
- ViewPager2 to swipe views
- CardView to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
- SwipeRefreshLayout to implement swipe-to-refresh UI pattern
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