Hacker-News-App

Structure of the code

Simple Android Application written in Kotlin. This project follows Clean Architecture with MVVM with Clean Architecture Design

Main libraries used

• Data Binding
• Dagger2
• RxJava2
• Retrofit2
• Timber
• Room
• Navigation Component
• Groupie RecyclerView Library
• Android Architecture component Jetpack

Modules

• data/ : contains the code to access to the data (repository pattern)
• domain/ : contains the business logic and the usecases
• app : Presentation layer, contains the UI

this project consist of three screens. on the first screen showing the list of news and on clicking the go to the Detail screen where there are two screen one is for comments and the other one is for Articles screen which shows url of the news in App. In Comment section by default the first comment is shown and by clicking on the number of comments will open the replies for that comment.

and for the simplicity of this project many things have been kept simple like

• ErrorHandling,
• Internet connectivity and
• local db to store data locally (Room). basic structure is added but due to time shortage did not completed it
• Design of the app is also kept sample and can be improved much more

comments are written with the function that what it will do.

also TODO are given in the area which we can improve more.

##New changes done fix issue of loading the comments when coming back to details screen add shimmer effect at start of the loading screen add unit test cases add design for the App architecture every time load the news list when comeback to the newslist screen or refresh improve design of comments list to show a proper link between child comments