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!Now in Android



Now in Android App
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Learn how this app was designed and built in the design case study, architecture learning journey and modularization learning journey.

This is the repository for the Now in Android
app. It is a work in progress 🚧.

Now in Android is a fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It
follows Android design and development best practices and is intended to be a useful reference
for developers. As a running app, it's intended to help developers keep up-to-date with the world
of Android development by providing regular news updates.

The app is currently in development. The prodRelease variant is available on the Play Store.

 Features

Now in Android displays content from the
Now in Android series. Users can browse for
links to recent videos, articles and other content. Users can also follow topics they are interested
in, and be notified when new content is published which matches interests they are following.

 Screenshots

!Screenshot showing For You screen, Interests screen and Topic detail screen

 Development Environment

Now in Android uses the Gradle build system and can be imported directly into Android Studio (make sure you are using the latest stable version available here). 

Change the run configuration to app.

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The demoDebug and demoRelease build variants can be built and run (the prod variants use a backend server which is not currently publicly available).

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Once you're up and running, you can refer to the learning journeys below to get a better
understanding of which libraries and tools are being used, the reasoning behind the approaches to
UI, testing, architecture and more, and how all of these different pieces of the project fit
together to create a complete app.

 Architecture

The Now in Android app follows the
official architecture guidance 
and is described in detail in the
architecture learning journey.

 Modularization

The Now in Android app has been fully modularized and you can find the detailed guidance and
description of the modularization strategy used in
modularization learning journey.

 Build

The app contains the usual debug and release build variants. 

In addition, the benchmark variant of app is used to test startup performance and generate a
baseline profile (see below for more information).

app-nia-catalog is a standalone app that displays the list of components that are stylized for
Now in Android.

The app also uses
product flavors to
control where content for the app should be loaded from.

The demo flavor uses static local data to allow immediate building and exploring of the UI.

The prod flavor makes real network calls to a backend server, providing up-to-date content. At 
this time, there is not a public backend available.

For normal development use the demoDebug variant. For UI performance testing use the
demoRelease variant. 

 Testing

To facilitate testing of components, Now in Android uses dep

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

This release adds the following features:

- Search. You can now search for content using a text field in the top app bar. Recent searches are saved locally so you can easily make the same search again. (thanks to @thagikura)
- Notifications. You'll be notified when new content is published which matches your interests. (thanks to @tunjid)
- Push-based data sync. When new content is published, a "sync" notification is sent to the app which triggers the app to download the new content. This means that you don't have to wait for the app to sync with the network service - the app always conta