News-App 📰

Overview :

Kotlin-based Android news app helps users stay up-to-date on the latest headlines.

Features :

• Display News in various categories
• Dark mode
• Share news with friends
• Browse news
• Bookmark news to read later/ Delete news
• Listen news with provided Text-To-Speech service

Screenshots :

Tools and Tech stack used :

• Kotlin
• XML
• MVVM Architecture
• Room database library
• Android Studio
• Third party libraries like retrofit, picasso, shimmer.

Getting Started :

Note: To run the app you have to add NewsAPI.org key. This API has limited access to daily request for News.

• Generate API key from News api

• Paste the key in 'gradle.properties' (Create the file if not exists)

  • For Linux/Mac: /home/.gradle/gradle.properties
  • For Windows: C:\Users\<UserName>\.gradle\gradle.properties

  API_KEY="<YOUR_API_KEY>"

• Rebuild app

Application link : Click here to download apk

Contributing

• Contributions are always welcome!

• See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways to get started.

For hackoberfest:

• Before creating any Pull Request, please register yourself at Hacktoberfest's Official Website
• If a maintainer reports behavior that’s not in line with the project’s code of conduct, then you will be ineligible to participate.
• If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam, it will not be counted towards your participation in Hacktoberfest.

Todos Features:

• Add language support for various languages
• Diversify news feed by adding different country/language options (through API endpoints)
• Improve home page card-slider/Carousel
• And many more.

📝 License

Copyright (c) 2022 Raj Manjrekar

This project is MIT licensed.