DailyNews

Small iOS client showing news from News API.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Features
• Setup
• Screenshots
• Feedback

General Info

A small and clean iOS app for reading live news sourced from News API. Using 100% programmatic UI and no 3rd party modules.

Technologies used

• Xcode 12
• Swift 5
• iOS 13
• UIKit
• 100% programmatic UI (no storyboard)
• UITableView (both regular and diffable)
• Collapsible sections in table view
• Networking using URLSession
• JSON parsing using JSONDecoder
• Public API
• Async download of images
• SwiftLint
• Dark mode support

Features

✅ Show news headlines
✅ Search in news
✅ Show article in WKWebView
✅ Share article
✅ Show sources
✅ Show source info

ToDo

❇️ Filter sources based on country and/or language
❇️ Filter headlines based on country and/or language
❇️ Mark articles to read later

Setup

To run this app you need to register an account at the News API service (newsapi.org) and get an API key. Put this key in file called Key.plist and you should be all set. For your conveninence, a Key-SAMPLE.plist file has been included in the project.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>apiKey</key>
  <string>YOUR_API_KEY_HERE</string>
</dict>
</plist>

SwiftLint

This project uses SwiftLint in order to enforce Swift style and conventions. Some minor adjustments to the default rules in SwiftLint can be found in the file .swiftlint.yml.

Screenshots

Headlines	Search	Article View

Sources	Source View

Feedback

Issues and PR:s are encouraged and highly welcome.