Skip to content

Codepath project for searching New York Times articles using their API

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

sdonn3/NYTSearch

Repository files navigation

Project 2 - NYTSearch

NYTSearch is an android app that allows a user to search for articles on web using simple filters. The app utilizes New York Times Search API.

Time spent: X hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

  • User can search for news article by specifying a query and launching a search. Search displays a grid of image results from the New York Times Search API.
  • User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
  • User can configure advanced search filters such as:
    • Begin Date (using a date picker)
    • News desk values (Arts, Fashion & Style, Sports)
    • Sort order (oldest or newest)
  • Subsequent searches have any filters applied to the search results
  • User can tap on any article in results to view the contents in an embedded browser.
  • User can scroll down to see more articles. The maximum number of articles is limited by the API search.

The following optional features are implemented:

  • Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
  • Used the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
  • User can share an article link to their friends or email it to themselves
  • Replaced Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay

The following bonus features are implemented:

The following additional features are implemented:

  • List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

I thought I was being clever with my util functions around the search parameters, but I ended up creating too many bugs. Ended up simplifying it a lot, and were I to do it again, I'd keep it even simpler. Also, the endless scroll listener didn't play nice when I rewrite it in Kotlin.

Open-source libraries used

  • Retrofit
  • Glide
  • RxJava
  • RxKotlin
  • RxBindings
  • GSON

License

Copyright [2018] [Steven Donnelly]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

About

Codepath project for searching New York Times articles using their API

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published