News mobile app

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What you will practice

You'll practice building multi-screen apps that consume an external API, opening web URLs within an app, and using & securing an API key.

Introduction

You'll build a mobile app to consume the News API and display a list of news articles. Clicking one of the news articles will open the news article within the app.

Depending on your experience, this project might take between 15 to 20 hours.

Requirements

When the user opens the app, they should see a list of news articles. Each news article should have the following details:

Source of the article (e.g. TechCrunch)
Author of the article (e.g. Mark Johnson)
Title of the article
Subtitle of the article - this shouldn't exceed 2 lines and should be truncated if it does
Published date in the format MM/DD/YYYY (e.g. 12/02/2020)
Image for the article provided by the News API

When the user clicks on a news article, open a new screen in the app and show the news article in that screen using the URL provided by the News API. It's important that you avoid opening the news article in a separate web browser and taking the user away from the app. This ensures that your mobile app provides a more immersive experience to the user.

For an extra challenge: Think about how you'd securely store the API key. How would you protect the API key from being stolen from malicious sources when your codebase is on GitHub? Implement a secure way to store an API key.

Suggested Implementation

This project should be implemented as an Android, iOS, or cross-platform mobile app.

Flutter with Dart (cross-platform)
React Native with JavaScript (cross-platform)
Swift (iOS)
Kotlin or Java (Android)

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Bapusaheb Patil

Mobile Engineer @ Softway • Google Certified Android Developer • IDF Certified UX Designer

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