NewsCastMB is a feature-rich news application built to demonstrate Modern Android Development best practices and the latest tools.
This app is developed using:
- Android Views (XML) for UI design.
- Room database for offline news caching.
- Paging 3 library for efficient pagination and large data handling.
- Retrofit for making network requests.
- Dagger Hilt for dependency injection.
- Navigation Component for seamless fragment navigation.
- Coil for efficient image loading.
- Kotlin Flows & Coroutines for reactive UI.
- PreferenceSettingCompat for managing app settings.
Key features of NewsCastMB:
- ✅ Offline article caching using Paging 3 Remote Mediator.
- ✅ Bookmark articles for offline reading using Room.
- ✅ Multiple news categories with a tab layout.
- ✅ Edge-to-edge UI, drawing behind the system bars.
- ✅ Light & Dark theme support using PreferenceSettingCompat.
- ✅ Search functionality to find specific articles.
- ✅ Swipe to delete for bookmarked news and more...
Before you begin
This app uses the NewsAPI service to fetch articles. To display news, you need to register an account, get an API key, and include it in AppConstants.API_KEY.
This app is built with Android Views and relies on an external news API, which is not free.
For a more advanced version, check out WikiNewsFeed—built with Jetpack Compose and powered by the free WikiNews API.