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NewsBreeze is a news application that selects latest and best news from Newsapi.org and summarises them to present in a short-summarized format. News is sourced from various categories and various sources, making sure that you always get the best.

• Bookmarks- Save news when you dont't have time to read so that you can come back to them later.
• Search - The latest news list has a search by title feature. Search lets you find any news by simply typing in a keyword in the search box. Easy access to your favorite topics of intrest via the search option.
• Read full article- If you need full story of an article just click on the more button then you will be redirected to the source url.
• MVVM with Android Architecture Components(Room, LiveData, ViewModel)

• Internet connectivity - This application needs internet connectivity to retrive data from newsapi.org.

• Retrofit For sending network requests and parsing JSON data.
• Picasso Loading and caching images.
• Room is a database layer on top of an SQLite database.
• Livedata for easier implementation of MVVM architecture.
• Gson to convert json string to their respective kotlin objects

Clone the repository and import into Android Studio

https://github.com/Arpit-Jha/NewsBreeze.git

For a quick installation download the apk

• View - Activity/Fragment with UI-specific logics only.
• ViewModel - It keeps the logic away from View layer, provides data streams for UI and handle user interactions. It servers as a link between the Model and the View.
• Model - This layer is responsible for the abstraction of the data sources. Model and ViewModel work together to get and save the data.
• Repository -The repository is a mediator between the different data sources. ViewModel simply request data from the repository.