SnapNews

A short news android app that shows trending news with different category options and search functionality.

App

UI

The app consists of a single activity with multiple fragments using MVVM architecture-

• Home Fragment
  This contains a list of latest news with ability to filter by category using TabLayout and filter by country using Dialog
• Search Fragment
  This view contains ability to search news using edittext
• News Detail Fragment
  This view contains news in detail

Libraries used

• Android Jetpack
  RecyclerView, Navigation-UI, Material Design, Lifecycle components
• Glide (image rendering)
• Network
  Retrofit, Gson(serialize / deserialize)

App screenshots

Api Info

The news data api used here is newsdata.io

Get latest news by category and country

  GET api/1/news

Parameter	Type	Description
apikey	string	Required. Your API key
country	string	country code
category	string	news category
page	integer	page number

Search news

  GET api/1/news

Parameter	Type	Description
apikey	string	Required. Your API key
q	string	query to search for
page	integer	page number

Add API Key

Add the following line in your project's root directory, inside the local.properties file (create one if unavailable) include the following line:

KEY="your api key"