newsapp's Introduction

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.