DevUpdates

An app that keeps you updated on Android Ecosystem from various different sources. Basically, news app for developer updates.

Why it was built

I have always wanted to build a open source project that is useful for me and other people. At the same time, I wanted to learn new things that have been happening in Android Development Ecosystem. So, instead of using third party apis to build a sample app, I chose to build this news app that helps me learn things from various sources.

It basically scrapes or uses rss feed to fetch content from different sources and saves it locally in the database. It is an offline app.

Note: This project is for learning purpose only. I will probably do different experiments, use cases that might not be suitable for ideal scenarios. Although If you have some suggestions regarding data sources, I will try to add them. Otherwise, fork this repo, do your thing.

Features

• Integrated multiple sources (focused on android only):
  • Home (aggregated feed from different sources)
  • Github Trending
  • Android Weekly
  • Official Android Blog
  • Medium - Android Developers
  • Medium- ProAndroidDev
  • Styling Android
  • Commonsware
  • Google Developer Experts
  • Antonio Leiva
  • Chris Banes
• Pagination on supported services
• Quick Bookmarks
• Night mode
• Drag/Drop order of services

TODO

• Devik module - Make this development only module more usable

Technologies

• Kotlin
• Coroutines
• Retrofit 2/ Gson
• AndroidX/Jetpack
• Dagger 2 + Hilt
• Room
• Firebase

Inspiration

• Zac Sweers and his CatchUp

Development

Since this project is only for learning purposes. It uses experimental components probably which are in alpha/beta. To run this project, Install latest version of the canary channel of Android Studio.

License

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Copyright (C) 2021 Arun Sharma

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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