Overview

FluxNews is an Android app using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose and provides real-time news updates. It's made for limited amount of time but it has the following features:

Onboarding Experience: Seamless and informative experience for new users
Home with Breaking News & Worldwide News: Able to view the latest breaking news from all over the world
Explore News by Categories: Easily browse news by categories such as health, technology, business and more
Search for Articles: Quickly find articles related to your interests
Bookmark Articles: Tap once and save the articles to read later
Real-Time Weather: Get weather updates in real time based on your specified timezone
Article Details: Read brief content of an article, as well as share and read more by directing to the article link.
Personalized Settings: Give yourself a nickname and toggle dark mode.

Preview

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Architecture

Presentation: Responsible for the UI and input management
Domain: Contains the business logic, including the use cases and repository interfaces
Data: Responsible for database operations, network requests and caching.

Technologies Used


	Kotlin	Official language for Android development, known for its concise syntax
	Jetpack Compose	A modern toolkit for building native Android UIs
	Figma	A collaborative design tool for creating UI/UX designs
	Paging Library	Efficiently loads data in chunks (paging)
	LiveData	An observable data holder for UI updates
	ViewModel	Retains UI data across configuration changes
	Navigation Components	Simplifies app navigation
	Retrofit	A type-safe HTTP client for making API requests
	Room	A persistence library for local database management
	DataStore	Async key-value and typed data storage with Kotlin coroutines
	Coil	An image loading library for Android
	NewsAPI	A third-party API for fetching news articles
	OpenWeatherMap	A third-party API for fetching real-time weather data
	Dagger	A compile-time dependency injection framework for Android
	Hilt	A dependency injection library that simplifies injecting dependencies in Android apps
	OkHttp	A networking library for HTTP requests
	JUnit	A testing framework for writing unit tests
	MockK	A mocking framework for unit testing Kotlin code
	Turbine	A testing library for Kotlin Flows