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The UI of headline details can be improved by improving the text style and color. Also in the grey space below the picture the news source and time of publishing of articles has to be added.

In the searchbar present in the search fragment, the search icon has a black color. Change the color to white

Currently the screenshots aren't being shown in the app. Install the app and upload screenshots for the same.

The weather and temperature has to be added at the top of the screen in the Headlines fragment. See the Google News app for reference. A similar layout needs to be added in this app

In the search section, 3-4 different news categories need to be created such as Science, Politics, Entertainment etc.

The share button in search and favourites isn't working. Add the piece of code used in Healdines in this as well

When the Search fragment is empty and nothing is searched, a placeholder should be added to it. It should get disappeared when searching for something.

The navigate to home button isn't working in Search fragment. Make it functional

The headlines fetched should be stored in the DB only if the response from the API is different from what it was earlier. If the API response is same then the articles should be fetched from DB. Currently every time the API is called the news articles are getting stored in Room which has to be eliminated at any cost.

Summary:

Pressing 'back' when viewing media should return the user to the last viewed media, not the parent activity.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a news
2. Press the 'back' button

Expected: goes back to this media item viewed
Actual: goes back to the parent activity

Summary:
Search symbol in the search fragment is not displayed in the right position.

Summary:

Crashes on clicking the "The Hindu" icon inside settings.

Steps to reproduce:

How can we reproduce the issue?

1. Log in
2. Open app
3. Go to setting
4. Click The Hindu
5. Go to Home
6. Scroll
7. Crashes

Currently the news is fetched only from indian source. Add the feature to fetch news based on user location.
The process to do this is quite simple. Currently the API used to fetch headlines has "in" as one of the query parameters. We need to get the present location of the user and based upon that change the query parameter.

An option to change the theme of the app can be added to Settings. A color picker can be provided which can change the theme of the app

Summary:

Back button not working in Search.

Steps to reproduce:

Go to Search.
Do some search here.
Now click on back button nothing happens.
Expected behavior:
Pressing back should have taken to Headlines.

Device and Android version:

Android 8.1.0

Would you like to work on the issue?

Yes.

The Readme has to be updated by adding information regarding the MVVM pattern which the project uses.

When the Search on the SearchBar is pressed, the keyboard should appear automatically.

Add pull to refresh in the headlines section so that the API will be called once again on refreshing

There is a crash in SearchFragment when we search for a query when no internet is present. This needs to be resolved.

Databinding library needs to be used in the project and eliminate the use of Butterknife to most of the extent

The Keyboard needs to hide automatically when the user clicks on the search icon on the keyboard.