News App

Overview

The goal is to create a News feed app which gives a user regularly-updated news from the internet related to a particular topic, person, or location. The project is part of Nanodegree program on Udacity.

Helpers

• Guardian API
• JSON Parsing
• HTTP Networking
• Threads & Parallelism
• Fetching data from an API
• Using an AsyncTask
• Loader Manager
• Picasso library
• Shared Preference
• Preference Fragment
• Web Intent
• Drawer layout
• Uri builder

API

In this project, I am using Guardian API. It is well-maintained and returns information in a JSON format.

http://content.guardianapis.com/search?q=debate&tag=politics/politics&from-date=2014-01-01&api-key=test
http://content.guardianapis.com/search?q=debates&api-key=test 

Picasso Library

Images add much-needed context and visual flair to Android applications. Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application—often in one line of code!

• Handling ImageView recycling and download cancelation in an adapter.
• Complex image transformations with minimal memory use.
• Automatic memory and disk caching.

 Picasso.get()
	.load(getString(R.string.your_link))
	.into(imageView);

Gradle dependencies

implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828'

Adapter Downloads

@Override public void getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
  SquaredImageView view = (SquaredImageView) convertView;
  if (view == null) {
    view = new SquaredImageView(context);
  }
  String url = getItem(position);
  Picasso.get().load(url).into(view);
}

The source code to the Picasso, its samples, and this website is available on Github.

UX DESIGN