MyTimes

https://newsapi.org/

MADE by: Debajyoti Basak (d.basak.db@gmail.com)

Features:

• Beautiful UI with Animations made with Material Design Guidelines by Google.
• Fetches News from 10 sources (will add more in the future)
• Option of sharing the news with friends.
• Read the full news by following the link provided in the Article.
• Read news in offline mode without internet.

News Sources

Screenshots

What I have learned from this project:

• Fetching JSON data and parsing it.
• Working with libraries like Retrofit and GSON
• Maintaining a good design ny following Material Design Guidelines by Google.
• Working with UI libraries like Material Drawer by Mike Penz.
• Saving Orientation changes with savedInstance.

Libraries used in this project:

• MaterialDrawer
• Retrofit2
• OkHTTP3
• Glide

It a fully Open Source project so go ahead and fork it.

Note: Please use your own API KEY. Its very easy to set up. Just go to https://newsapi.org/register.

If you do not have a gradle.properties file, create one

• Change you Android view to Project file in the directory
• Right click > New > File
• Put the name as gradle.properties
• Now paste MY_NEWS_API_KEY="your-api-key-here" in the gradle.properties file

Build the project and Run

Contributions are also welcome.