APOD

A mobile app that uses NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) API to display the current APOD. This project is a React Native implementation of their official site.

This project replaces the old Android app, which was written in Java.

Resources

• NASA APOD API documentation: https://github.com/nasa/apod-api

Installation

1. Run npm install from root directory.

Setup

1. Generate a NASA API key here.
2. Create a file called .env in the root directory of this project.
3. Add your API key to that file with the key API_KEY.

Run on Android Device

1. Download Android Studio
2. Install Android 13 (Tiramisu)
3. Run npx expo run:android --device

Additional steps/resources can be found here.

Testing

• APOD with video: 2022-07-09 (The month is August but the value is 7 because months are 0-based indices for JavaScript Date objects).