*NYTimes is an android app that allows a user to search for articles on web using simple filters. The app utilizes New York Times Search API.
The following required functionality is completed:
The app has 2 screens defined below. Home Screen:
- Allows the user to enter a search term and displays the results in either a list or grid view.
- Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText.
- Results should display:
- Article thumbnail
- Article headline
- Selecting an item in search results should open the detail screen.
- Should have pagination of results
Detail Screen:
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Displays a detailed view of article.
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User can share a link to their friends or email it to themselves
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Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures.
The following additional features are implemented:
- As soon as user opens the app, a network call is made to show them current news.
- User can click on "Filter" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results based on news desk values
- Subsequent searches have any filters applied to the search results
- Filters are stored in shared preferences so that they will be retained even after application closes.
- User can switch between list and grid view for news results
- Heterogenous Layouts for different news articles that only have text or only have images
- Leverages the data binding support module
- Added placeholder images for news items.
- Added a Splash screen.
- Handled orientation change
- Fixed crashes and handled no response and error response from server
- Retrofit2 - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
- [CardView] - Implement card like layout for news article using Google Design library.
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