- Downloading the news from the API given
- Option to save the articles to view offline
- Swipe from top to refresh news feed
- This application takes advantage of MVVM architecture
- Activity, ViewModel, Repository, LiveData, ObservableFields, DataBinding are the basic building blocks of this architecture
- All the UI related work like showing Toast, starting a new activity, showing the progress bar, etc is done in the Activity.
- Business logic is written in the ViewModel. Also the observable fields are present in the ViewModel which are observed from the XML when we use data binding.
- All API and DB calls happen from within the repository.
- It's a 1 way reference flow from Activity -> View Model -> Repository. For ViewModel/Repository to communicate back in the chain we use live data which is observed by the concerned entity.
- We have used Java as the primary programming language
- Constraint Layout has been used to design the UI
Apart from Gson(), no other 3rd party library has been used. Everything is built on top of the System APIs
