News App

News App is a simple news app which uses NewsAPI to fetch top news headlines from the API.

Project Overview

The goal is to create a News app which gives a user updated news from the internet related to a particular category.

The codebase focuses on following key things:

• Code structuring, style and comments
• Offline
• Kotlin + Coroutines
• room database
• coroutine flow
• Retrofit

API key

You'll need to provide API key to fetch the news from the News Service (API). Currently the news is fetched from NewsAPI

• Generate an API key (It's only 2 from NewsAPI
• Create new file named -> credentials.properties in our project root folder
• Add the API key as shown below [Make sure to keep the double quotes]:

    NEWS_API_KEY = "<INSERT_YOUR_API_KEY>"
    API_BASE_URL = "<INSERT_YOUR_BASE_URL>"

Features

• Navigation Drawer
• Fragments
• ViewPager plus TabLayout
• Intent
• NewsAPI
• JSON Parsing
• Coil
• CardView
• RecyclerView
• Coroutine
• Room database

Architecture

The app uses MVVM [Model-View-ViewModel] architecture to have a unidirectional flow of data, separation of concern, testability, and a lot more.