News App

Four page news list app.

Keywords

The first appearing screen is the splash screen. Asking to user push notification permission at splash.

The second screen is the list that includes the news from now to the past. I can able to fetching the data from Google News API and the data refresh by the pull to refresh.The list screen have a search and filter which can work at the same time. I can able to search by text and filter by date range such as from 01/01/2022 to 30/01/2022. The search work with the API, not locale.

By tapping one of the news, the news detail screen appear. I can able to add the news to the favorites via a button.

The last screen is the favorites that have the favorite news. Opening via Safari when a favorited news is tapped.

Goals

Learn asking permission
Learn how to use closures
Understand MVVM by separating logic between controller and view model
Integrate third-party library
Build UI programmatically in controller
Use UserDefaults
Integrate generic network layer by Alamofire
Use model(such as News) with Codable
Understand localization
Write unit test

Architecture

MVVM
Use closures to communicate between controller and view model
Build a generic network layer combined with Alamofire
Use protocols to pass the data from the network layer to the screen

Language / Framework

Swift with UIKit
Responsive Design
SnapKit integrated to build UI programmatically 
Table view for the list screen
Download news images via Kingfisher

Keywords

MVVM
Table view
Codable
SPM
SnapKit
Kingfisher
Generic network layer
Alamofire
UserDefaults
Localization
Unit test
Closure