/News

A sample News 🗞 app built using Modern Android Development [Architecture Components, Coroutines, Retrofit, Room, Kotlin, Dagger]

Primary LanguageKotlinMIT LicenseMIT

News App 🗞

GitHub license

News App is a simple news app 🗞️ which uses NewsAPI to fetch top news headlines from the API. The main aim of this app is to be a leading example of how to build Modern Android applications for all Android Developers

The codebase focuses 👓 on following key things:

  • Code structuring, style and comments
  • Dependency injection 🗡
  • Offline first ✈️
  • Kotlin + Coroutines
  • And tests 🛠
  • Emojis (ofcourse) 😛

The idea is to keep the app super simple while demonstrating new libraries and tools which makes it easier to build high quality Android applications.

NewsApp Main Page

Development Setup 🖥

You will require latest version of Android Studio 3.0 (or newer) to be able to build the app

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 steps!) 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>"
  • Build the app
  • Enjoyyyyy 🎉

Libraries and tools 🛠

News App uses libraries and tools used to build Modern Android application, mainly part of Android Jetpack 🚀

Architecture

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

Read more:

Architecture

Dependency Graph 🔪

The following diagram shows the dependency graph of the app.

News App Dependency Graph

Generated by Daggraph


Learn Architecture Components

Trying to learn the new Architecture Components. I have wrote a series of articles to understand Android Architecture Components. Feel free to check it out to learn more.

Extra - Caster.io Course and Podcast

Testing

The architecture components are highly testable. Following table shows how to test various parts of the app (cheatsheet for testing architecture component)

Component Test Mock
UI Espresso ViewModel
ViewModel JUnit Repository
Repository JUnit DAO and WebService
DAO Instrumented -
WebService Instrumented MockWebServer

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for contributions.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Akshay Chordiya

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