A modern Android news aggregator app built with Jetpack Compose, showcasing current Android development best practices and architecture patterns.

• 📱 100% Jetpack Compose UI - Modern declarative UI framework
• 🎨 Material 3 Design - Latest Material Design with dynamic theming
• 🌙 Dark Mode - Full light/dark theme support
• 📂 Category Filtering - Browse news by Technology, Business, Sports, etc.
• 🔖 Offline Bookmarks - Save articles for offline reading with Room database
• 🔄 Pull to Refresh - Smooth refresh with loading indicators
• ⚡ Performance Optimized - Aggressive caching, R8 optimization
• 🧪 Well Tested - Unit tests, instrumented tests, 70%+ coverage
• 🏗️ Clean Architecture - MVVM with Repository pattern

NewsFlow follows Clean Architecture principles with MVVM pattern and unidirectional data flow.

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│           UI Layer (Compose)        │
│  - Composables                      │
│  - State holders (ViewModels)       │
│  - Navigation                       │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
               │ StateFlow / Events
┌──────────────▼──────────────────────┐
│       Domain Layer (Optional)       │
│  - Use Cases                        │
│  - Business Logic                   │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
               │
┌──────────────▼──────────────────────┐
│          Data Layer                 │
│  - Repositories                     │
│  - Data Sources (API, Database)     │
│  - Models                           │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

State Management:

• StateFlow for UI state (always has a value, hot flow)
• SharedFlow for one-time events (snackbars, navigation)
• collectAsStateWithLifecycle() for lifecycle-aware collection

Dependency Injection:

• Hilt for automatic dependency injection
• ViewModel injection with @HiltViewModel
• Repository injection with @Singleton scope

Offline-First:

• Room database for bookmarked articles
• In-memory caching for article list
• Reactive UI updates via Flow

Error Handling:

• Result sealed class for data operations
• Separate refresh state from data state
• User-friendly error messages with retry

• Kotlin - 100% Kotlin codebase
• Jetpack Compose - Declarative UI framework
• Material 3 - Latest Material Design components
• Coroutines - Asynchronous programming
• Flow - Reactive streams

• ViewModel - State management
• Navigation Compose - Type-safe navigation
• Hilt - Dependency injection
• Room - Local database

• Retrofit - REST API client
• OkHttp - HTTP client with logging
• Gson - JSON serialization

• Coil - Image loading with caching

• JUnit - Unit testing framework
• MockK - Mocking library
• Turbine - Flow testing
• Compose UI Test - UI testing

• R8 - Code shrinking and obfuscation
• ProGuard - Additional optimization rules
• Gradle Kotlin DSL - Modern build configuration

• Android Studio Hedgehog (2023.1.1) or newer
• JDK 17
• Android SDK 34
• Minimum Android 7.0 (API 24)

1. Get a free API key from NewsAPI.org

2. Create local.properties in project root (if it doesn't exist)

3. Add your API key:

NEWS_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/newsflow.git
cd newsflow

2. Open in Android Studio

3. Sync Gradle files

4. Run the app (Debug variant)

• Debug - Development build with debugging enabled
• Release - Production build with R8 optimization

# Build debug APK
./gradlew assembleDebug

# Build release APK
./gradlew assembleRelease

# Run tests
./gradlew test
./gradlew connectedAndroidTest

Browse news by category with Material 3 FilterChips. Categories load asynchronously with loading states.

Save articles locally for offline reading. Uses Room database with Flow for reactive updates. Articles persist across app restarts.

Swipe down to refresh news feed. Shows loading indicator while maintaining current articles for better UX.

Network errors show Snackbar notifications. If cached data exists, it remains visible with error toast. Full error screen with retry for initial load failures.

• ViewModels: 80%+ coverage
• Repositories: 90%+ coverage
• UI: Key user flows covered

Unit Tests:

./gradlew test

UI Tests:

./gradlew connectedAndroidTest

Test Structure:

app/src/
├── test/              # Unit tests
│   ├── TestFixtures.kt
│   ├── viewmodels/
│   └── repositories/
└── androidTest/       # Instrumented tests
    └── ui/

• ✅ R8 code shrinking (~60% size reduction)
• ✅ Compose recomposition optimization
• ✅ Image caching (memory + disk)
• ✅ LazyColumn with stable keys
• ✅ Lifecycle-aware state collection

• APK Size: 5-8 MB (compressed)
• Cold Start: ~1.5s
• List Scrolling: 60 FPS
• Memory Usage: 80-120 MB

newsflow/
├── app/
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── main/
│   │   │   ├── java/com/yourname/newsflow/
│   │   │   │   ├── data/
│   │   │   │   │   ├── local/
│   │   │   │   │   │   ├── dao/
│   │   │   │   │   │   ├── entity/
│   │   │   │   │   │   └── NewsDatabase.kt
│   │   │   │   │   ├── model/
│   │   │   │   │   ├── remote/
│   │   │   │   │   └── repository/
│   │   │   │   ├── ui/
│   │   │   │   │   ├── navigation/
│   │   │   │   │   ├── screens/
│   │   │   │   │   │   ├── home/
│   │   │   │   │   │   ├── detail/
│   │   │   │   │   │   └── bookmarks/
│   │   │   │   │   └── theme/
│   │   │   │   └── MainActivity.kt
│   │   │   └── AndroidManifest.xml
│   │   ├── test/         # Unit tests
│   │   └── androidTest/  # UI tests
│   └── build.gradle.kts
├── docs/
│   ├── ARCHITECTURE.md
│   ├── PERFORMANCE.md
│   └── screenshots/
├── gradle/
├── README.md
└── build.gradle.kts

This is a portfolio project, but suggestions and feedback are welcome!

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 Your Name

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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SOFTWARE.

Your Name

• GitHub: @yourusername
• LinkedIn: Your LinkedIn
• Email: your.email@example.com

• News data provided by NewsAPI.org
• Design inspired by Material 3 guidelines
• Built as part of Android development learning journey

• Android Developers Documentation
• Jetpack Compose
• Material 3 Design
• Architecture Guide

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