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A news application in Android that offers the recommended, summarized news articles in as short and crisp format from multiple news sources per user’s choice. Key Features: Recommendation System Engine (gives recommended news articles), NLP Summarization (gives a 5 sentence summarized for each articles), Popularity-based Trending System (to stay…

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Entire News (Android News App)

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An app, that will show current and recent news from all over the world. A nice, clean, simple and interactive user interface that is easy to use. Will show user live news feed from various and trusted news sources (free API available at https://newsapi.org).

Features including -

  • Multiple news sources in one app (i.e. BBC, CNN, ABCNews, USA Today, Times)
  • The ability to save and read news offline
  • The ability to read news that the user saved for reading offline.
  • Notify the user on a fixed interval for checking the news
  • The ability to share a news article with friends and family on social network

Future plan (improvements) -

  • The ability to login and sync saved news articles across multiple devices
  • Search for news articles

Main goal: Design an app with current responsive user interface (with interactive animations), so that everyone can use it without the need to learn new stuff. As soon as the user opens the app, it will collect and display the user with fresh and trending news.

Requirements -

  • Language
    • Java / Kotlin & XML
    • Python
    • MongoDB Syntax
    • JavaScript
    • Node.js
  • IDE
    • Android Studio (version 3+ & Java JDK 8+)
    • PyCharm (with Python 3+)
    • WebStorm
    • Notepad++
  • Server
    • Amazon AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    • Ubuntu 16.10

Libraries Used

Free Libries used in this project:

  • Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java
  • Glide - Glide is a fast and efficient image loading library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
  • Calligraphy - Custom fonts in Android.
  • Joda Time - Joda-Time provides a quality replacement for the Java date and time classes.
  • Android About Page - Create an awesome About Page for your Android App in 2 minutes
  • [...] - Description

Database Model

Field Name Data Type Length Example Data
_id hash 64 507f1f77bcf86cd799439011
title string 1024 Maria Expected to...
date string 32 2017-09-16T10:09:22Z
source string 1024 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41292528
cover string 1024 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1024x576/p05g9f0r.jpg
article string Tropical Storm Maria will threaten portions...
summary string Tropical Storm Maria is...
slug string 1024 maria-expected-to...
saves number 654
views number 4532
published boolean true
deleted boolean false
hidden boolean false
keywords boolean 32 [ String ]
tags boolean 32 [ String ]

License

2018 FSU License

Made with love from Fresno, CA 💗

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A news application in Android that offers the recommended, summarized news articles in as short and crisp format from multiple news sources per user’s choice. Key Features: Recommendation System Engine (gives recommended news articles), NLP Summarization (gives a 5 sentence summarized for each articles), Popularity-based Trending System (to stay…

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