Rss feed reader for the BBC network news feed. Works fast, utilises MVP architecture and several modern libraries to perform REST work, image downloading and caching.
- Screenshots of a current state - phone and tablet Screenshots.
- [Specifications](materials/Android Developer Interview Assignment.pdf).
- To be simple enough to make it under 8 hours - this caused me to make several sacrifices:
- Realm instead of SQLite, therefore inability to use a ContentProvider.
- Without a ContentProvider - no SyncAdapter, which would be the best way to perform battery-efficient regular updates.
- API to get data in XML format: BBC
- Tablet Design.
- Used MVP Architecture for the app.
- Realm Database for caching and storing the data.
- Accessibility features: RTL, content descriptions, empty TextView when there are no articles.
- Google Coding Style.
- ShareActionProvider to send links to friends.
- Material Design and Shared Transitions, reveal animations.
- Search of articles.
- Scroll to the top by clicking the ActionBar.
- Palette to have a nice-looking design.
- For API 21+ - auto-updates in background with notifications (JobScheduler).
- Market (without BBC logos) and Local (BBC branded) flavors.
- Realm - fast and efficient database, which dramatically increases a speed of development.
- Butterknife - boilerplate code cutter, improves speed of development, makes code easier to read.
- Retrofit - basically the standard in the Android development for all REST-related works.
- RxJava, Retrolambda - the most modern way to manage streams of data and asynctasks and a plugin to make use of nice Java 8 lambda syntax.
- Picasso - one of the best image downloading and caching libraries for Android, increases speed of development.
- BBC Icon - www.iconarchive.com.
- BBC Logo - wikimedia.org.
- RSS Font Awesome - wikimedia.org.
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