Hacker News - Android App

Hacker News app shows recently posted articles about Android or iOS on Hacker News

Features

• List view of articles about Android or iOS recently published in Hacker News
• Load latest articles when pull down (Pull to refresh)
• You can delete articles to not receive them anymore by sliding it to the left (Swipe to delete)
• You can view the articles within the application (WebView)

Screenshots

Data Flow

App Dependencies

• Retrofit2: for API integration

• Moshi: for Kotlin/JSON serialization/deserialization

• Coroutines: for asynchronous code execution

• Jetpack Components

  • LiveData
  • ViewModel
  • Navigation
  • DataBinding
  • Room: for SQLite Database Management
  • Paging3: custom RemoteMediator for loading data
  • Hilt: for Dependency Injection

Source code structure

   bmj.android.hackernews\   Application package
     :..api\                 Classes for Hacker News API Integration and API Response Model
     :..data\                Data repository and RemoteMediator
     :..db\                  Room Database and Data Access Objects (DAOs)
     :..di\                  Dependency Injection Modules
     :..model\               Data Model Clases and JSON adapters
     :..ui\                  UI components (Fragments, Adapters), Viewmodels
     :..util\                App utils and constants

Requirements

• Android Studio 4.1.3 or higher