Tech-news-works

Tech-news-works is a sample news reading app, built with Jetpack Compose. The goal of the sample is to showcase some skills for a particular app challenge.

To try out this sample app:

• Use the latest stable version of Android Studio.
• Clone the repository and import it.
• Add local.properties in main/premium with the API_KEY.

Screenshots

Features

This sample contains three screens: login with biometric (if possible), a list of top headlines, and a detail page for headlines.

Biometrics

Package com.example.technewsworks.ui.screens.biometric

This screen shows how to check if the device has a biometrics and if it’s configured in the device.

See how to:

• Use Column to arrange the contents of the UI.
• Use Android biometric authentication dialog.
• Define the types of authentication that your app supports.
• Check that biometric authentication is available.
• Display the biometric prompt.
• Use default Material's Typography and ColorScheme to style the text.

Top headlines list

Package com.example.technewsworks.ui.screens.home

This screen shows how to create different custom Composable functions and combine them in a list that scrolls vertically.

See how to:

• Use Rows and Columns to arrange the contents of the UI.
• Use Paging for load and display pages of data from network.
• Use Glide for download and chace images.
• Use default Material's Typography and ColorScheme to style the text.

News detail

Package com.example.technewsworks.ui.screens.news

This screen simple shows the news detail.

Data

The data is from a specific source (BBC news). However could be replaced for a static FakeNews, held in the com.example.technewsworks.data.datasource.mock package.