lokeshponnada / newscatchr-opensource

Code of the NewsCatchr app

NewsCatchr

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Why Open Source now?

You know, I'm the laziest developer on earth and I'm pissed about the app now, so do whatever you want! No, that was just a JOKE!

I believe in OPEN SOURCE, I believe, that apps will get better when they are open source and there's a community, which likes to contribute. And because I don't need yet, I thought "What could go wrong? - Nothing.".

How can YOU contribute?

Things you have to know:

• The app is mostly written in Kotlin (but it's very similar to Java)
• When you want to build the app, you should use Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA with the Kotlin plugin installed
• The API keys, used buy the Play Store version are removed from this code, enter your own under mobile/src/main/java/jlelse/newscatchr/backend/apis/ApiKeys.kt

Some things you can help with:

• Translate the app's strings
• Improve the app's design
• Fix bugs I didn't found
• And more!

An better description will follow soon...

What has changed since the last Play Store release?

• Read state indicator (italic title) including backup / restore of it
• Big changes to the way, the app gets the articles from feedly
• Restructured some settings
• Sync feature (download new articles on a specific time interval)
• Google Voice Search implementation
• Direct posting to Facebook and Twitter
• Url Shortener (very useful when sharing to Twitter)
• Big UI changes (FABs, new colors, new icon etc.)
• Improved Readability feature (reparsing articles), it uses the WordPress API now too
• Totally reworked home screen with last opened feeds, favorite feeds and suggestions based on your language
• Added German translation and added option to change the language manually
• Updated many dependencies
• And more

LICENSE

NewsCatchr  Copyright © 2016  Jan-Lukas Else

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.