Project built for Udacity's Android Basics Nanodegree.
Android app that displays the news related to the user's topic of interest. The news are fetched from The Guardian News.
- Connect to an API and parse the JSON response.
- Response validation/Handle error cases (Display error message when there is no internet connection or data to load).
- Display the JSON response (date formatting). Update the information when necessary.
- Use a loader to keep network operations independent of the Activity lifecycle.
- Intent to web browser.
- Create a Settings Activity from a menu in the Main Activity.
- Implement the Preference Fragment to update and keep track of user's preferences.
- Use Uri.Builder class to add query parameters to the URL.
The use of external libraries were not be permitted to complete this project._
Clone the repository using git (or download it as a zip), then import the project in Android Studio.
git clone https://github.com/ootahiaoo/NewsAppProject.git
The app fetches information from the Guardian API.
You need to register and get your own API KEY in order to use this app.
Once you have a key, open the gradle.properties file and replace the your-api-key with your own key at line 14.
theGuardianApiKey="your-api-key"
To be added.
Feel free to make pull requests/suggest improvements.