Reimplementing CrytpoNews in Native Android(UPDATE #5: FAVORITE FEATURE ADDED)

The aim of the app is to fetch news from different wordpress websites and display in the application. While the news are displayed, the app gives you the ability to click and view each news within the app. Instead of taking you out of the app, it gives you the comfort of viewing within the app.

History

• Reimplementing CryptoNews in Native Android

Previous Updates

• Reimplementing CrytpoNews in Native Android(UPDATE: Storing News in DB)
• Reimplementing CrytpoNews in Native Android (UPDATE #2 : ADDED SETTINGS CUSTOMIZATION)
• Reimplementing CrytpoNews in Native Android (UPDATE #3 : NETWORK LISTENER)
• Reimplementing CrytpoNews in Native Android(UPDATE #4: Share News Functionality)

New Features

• User can now save his/her favorite news to read later by just clicking of a button

Clicking on Show Favorites to Enter Favorite screen	The covered Star Icon Indicates that the Post has been Favorited

Empty Favorite Screen with no Items	OnLongPress Action on an item creates a context Menu where user can delete (1) post at a time

Favorite Screen with one Item	Empty Star Icon indicates that the post has not been favorited

How It was Implemented

The resources for the icons were gotten from google icons - Commit can be found here

• Since This Project uses MVVM architecture, i created the FavoriteActvity - this was where all the logic for querying and deleting the favorite took place. I also create a FavoriteviewModel class which bridges the FavoriteRepositoryClass and the Activity.

A dao was created to retrieve the data from the FavoriteTable -(A pojo class annotated with @Entity) in the database. This class was adequatey provided using dagger in the AppModuleClass.

• The star icons were implemented in the NewswebPageActivity where a user can add and remove from the database.

• Flexible Adapter was used to perform LongPressAction on the adapter in the Favorite Activity.

Final Commit here

Resources

• Github Pull Request- Link of PR can be found here
• Apk for download - Download here
• *Note: Ff you have a previous installation, kindly uninstall before installing this version, versioning will soon be available out on Playstore !!!

Roadmap

• Searching all news
• Persisting user news
• Providing different layouts
• Providing different themes for user
• Push Notifications
• News Posts sharing
• Incorporating more news and giving the user the flexibility of deciding what he wants to read per time.
• Able to save Favorites

On the Next Updates , Users will be able to :-

• Search through News,
• Delete Multiple Items in Favorite Activity.

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