This is a java written technical test. The objective is to obtain news articals from an api(https://newsapi.org/) and have 2 separate flavours of the application.

Requirements

Minimum android version 16
Permissions : Internet, Network state

Installation

Clone this repository and import into Android Studio

Features

SOLID coding principles applied to keep code clean and easy to read
Android navigation library
Livedata, with lifecycle aware results
Data persistence with room
Picasso for image caching
Recycler view for easy user list display

Architectural Pattern

MVVM - Model View Viewmodel SOLID coding principle

Jetpack

AndroidX

Unit test

RepositoryTest

Built With

Gson - A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back
Dagger 2 - A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
Retrofit - Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc
Picasso - A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android
Room Persistence Library - The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
Mockito - Most popular Mocking framework for unit tests written in Java

Authors

Haider Malik - Android Developer