android-freedomfeed-newsfeed
Social-purpose-themed RSS, Atom and Twitter aggregator
This is the beginning of a news aggregator that integrates multipl curated RSS, Atom and Twitter feeds into a single feed. Thematic topics can be selected or custom feeds can be added by the user; and default topics have themes of social justice, freedom of expression and internet freedom, however these topics can also be customized.
Each topic cluster contains a pre-curated set of RSS/Atom feeds and/or follows Twitter hashtags on certain themes. This allows the user to receive news aggregated from many sources.
The goal of this project was to spend a few days learning more about multiple facets of Android development.
Soon-to-be-implemented:
- Persistence features: a simple splashscreen before the 'welcome' page and ability to redirect to the feed after first-time setup; persistence of feed choices via SQLite3 db
Backlog:
- ability to save/favourite/share news items
- on-the-fly customization (swiping to remove items)
- improved GUI, including differentiating between already viewed and new items, better layout and colour scheme, etc