Created as part of Udacity's Android Basics by Google Nanodegree Program
The goal is to create a News Feed app which gives a user regularly-updated news from the internet related to a particular topic, person, or location. The presentation of the information as well as the topic is up to you.
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Main Screen. App contains a main screen which displays multiple news stories.
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List Item Contents.
- Each list item on the main screen displays relevant text and information about the story.
- The title of the article and the name of the section that it belongs to are required field.
- If available, author name and date published should be included. Please note not all responses will contain these pieces of data, but it is required to include them if they are present.
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Best practices. The code adheres to all of the following best practices:
- Text sizes are defined in sp.
- Lengths are defined in dp.
- Padding and margin is used appropriately, such that the views are not crammed up against each other.
- Main Screen Updates. Stories shown on the main screen update properly whenever new news data is fetched from the API.
- Errors. The code runs without errors.
- Story Intents. Clicking on a story uses an intent to open the story in the user’s browser.
- API Query. App queries the content.guardianapis.com api to fetch news stories related to the topic chosen by the student, using either the ‘test’ api key or the student’s key.
- JSON Parsing. The JSON response is parsed correctly, and relevant information is stored in the app.
- No Data Message. When there is no data to display, the app shows a default TextView that informs the user how to populate the list.
- Response Validation. The app checks whether the device is connected to the internet and responds appropriately. The result of the request is validated to account for a bad server response or lack of server response.
- Use of Loaders. Networking operations are done using a Loader rather than an AsyncTask.
- External Libraries and Packages. The intent of this project is to give you practice writing raw Java code using the necessary classes provided by the Android framework; therefore, the use of external libraries for the core functionality will not be permitted to complete this project.
NewsApp stage1 - NoData
NewsApp stage2 - settings - noData
