A Flutter news reader app which fetches news from , which was developed for Flutter Jakarta App Challenge #1.
The name Mercury comes from Roman God Mercury, a god of communications and messages also known as Hermes in Greek mythology.
The app features a black and white theme inspired from Newspaper by Andrew Drozd -- Dribbble, and uses the font Merriweather.
Mercury logo belongs to netclipart.com
- Select curated list of news sources which are divided into three categories: English, Mandarin and Others.
- Tap on a source to see articles from that source.
- Filter articles based on title.
- Favorite an article that you like by tapping on 'Heart' button. Favorited articles can be accessed through the page 'Favorited Articles'
To run the app, you'll need to get an API Key from newsapi.org. Then, create a JSON file in /assets/api_key.json and create a field called key to inject your API key. An example:
{
"key": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
}
See /lib/secret/secret_loader.dart for details on the API key injection mechanism.