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WikiNewsFeed

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WikiNewsApp: A modern Android app for fetching and displaying global news from the open-source WikiNews platform!! ARCHIVED DUE TO API SHUTDOWN: https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community#Announcement:_API_Portal_shutdown

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<h1 align="center"><b>📰 WikiNewsFeed</b></h1>
<h4 align="center">A modern news application for Android developed using Jetpack Compose, based on Wikinews.</h4>
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## About

WikiNews is a sleek and modern Android news application built with the latest technologies. It uses the [Wikimedia API](https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) for news data.

## Screenshots

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MubarakNative/WikiNewsFeed/main/WikiNews_Screenshots.png)
<p align="center">
    <img src="/WikiNewsAppDemo.gif" >
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## Tech Stack

- 🎨 Jetpack Compose: Android Modern UI framework.
- 🌐 Ktor: A lightweight HTTP client for making requests.
- 🛠️ Hilt: A dependency injection framework.
- 🖼️ Coil Compose: A library for loading and displaying images in Jetpack Compose.
- Navigation suite scaffold for dynamic navigation layout.
- Kotlin Coroutines and flow
- 🏗️ Modern Android Architecture: Following best practices for app architecture and design patterns

## Features

- [x] Get latest News article retrieval from [WikiMedia API]("https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page")
- [x] Multiple news categories like featured, mostread and onthisday.
- [x] Search for the latest and entire list of news items in WikiMedia API.
- [x] Display news in details within the app.
- [x] Card-based layout.
- [x] Supports different screen sizes with dynamic navigation layout and news items.
- [ ] Offline news caching.
- [ ] Settings screen for theme changing.
- [ ] Bookmarking news for later reads.

## Improvements

> Note that this project is still in the development phase.

As you might ask me
> Where was the app released?

Currently, you can't download this app because it is in development, but there is a hardcoded testing api key that can be used for testing purposes

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For more about:

User Authentication, please check out: https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Authentication#User_authentication

API Rate limit, please check out: https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rate_limits

## License

[![GNU GPLv3 Image](https://www.gnu.org/graphics/gplv3-127x51.png)](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)

WikiNewsFeed is licensed under GPLv3

Read the full license text [here](https://github.com/MubarakNative/WikiNewsFeed/blob/main/LICENSE).

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