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news-feed-app

https://newsapi.org/

Features:

  • Beautiful UI with Animations made with Material Design Guidelines by Google.
  • Fetches News from 10 sources (will add more in the future)
  • Option of sharing the news with friends.
  • Read the full news by following the link provided in the Article.
  • Read news in offline mode without internet.

What I have learned from this project:

  • Fetching JSON data and parsing it.
  • Working with libraries like Retrofit and GSON
  • Maintaining a good design ny following Material Design Guidelines by Google.
  • Working with UI libraries like Material Drawer by Mike Penz.
  • Saving Orientation changes with savedInstance.

Libraries used in this project:

Note: Please use your own API KEY. Its very easy to set up. Just go to https://newsapi.org/register.

If you do not have a gradle.properties file, create one

  • Change you Android view to Project file in the directory
  • Right click > New > File
  • Put the name as gradle.properties
  • Now paste MY_NEWS_API_KEY="your-api-key-here" in the gradle.properties file