TheDailyPlanet

Android news app that uses the Guardian News API to return a list of news articles to the user

Getting Started

Get started by cloning the project to your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/namclu/TheDailyPlanet.git

Prerequisites

• Android Studio
• minSdkVersion 17
• targetSdkVersion 25

Installing

1. Open Android Studio
2. If the repository is cloned to your local machine, select Open an existing Android Studio project and select the location from which the responsitory was cloned to.
3. If the repository has not been cloned to your local machine, select Check out project from Version Control > GitHub

Git Repository URL: https://github.com/namclu/TheDailyPlanet
Parent Directory: <Location where you want to store the repository>
Directory Name: <Name of the repository>

4. Build and Run

Author(s)

• Nam Lu - namclu

Concepts Learned

• Using AsyncTaskLoader to make network calls off main thread
• Make API calls to obtain JSON data from news website
• Using RecyclerView to display a list of news feeds

Screenshots