EntireNewsProject / Android-App

A news application in Android that offers the recommended, summarized news articles in as short and crisp format from multiple news sources per user’s choice. Key Features: Recommendation System Engine (gives recommended news articles), NLP Summarization (gives a 5 sentence summarized for each articles), Popularity-based Trending System (to stay up-to date with the most popular news) and Multiple news sources to choose (Over 15 News Sources). Download the app at http://www.entirenews.tk and please share your feedback with us

Entire News (Android News App)

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An app, that will show current and recent news from all over the world. A nice, clean, simple and interactive user interface that is easy to use. Will show user live news feed from various and trusted news sources (free API available at https://newsapi.org).

Features including -

• Multiple news sources in one app (i.e. BBC, CNN, ABCNews, USA Today, Times)
• The ability to save and read news offline
• The ability to read news that the user saved for reading offline.
• Notify the user on a fixed interval for checking the news
• The ability to share a news article with friends and family on social network

Future plan (improvements) -

• The ability to login and sync saved news articles across multiple devices
• Search for news articles

Main goal: Design an app with current responsive user interface (with interactive animations), so that everyone can use it without the need to learn new stuff. As soon as the user opens the app, it will collect and display the user with fresh and trending news.

Requirements -

• Language
  • Java / Kotlin & XML
  • Python
  • MongoDB Syntax
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
• IDE
  • Android Studio (version 3+ & Java JDK 8+)
  • PyCharm (with Python 3+)
  • WebStorm
  • Notepad++
• Server
  • Amazon AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Ubuntu 16.10

Libraries Used

Free Libries used in this project:

• Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java
• Glide - Glide is a fast and efficient image loading library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
• Calligraphy - Custom fonts in Android.
• Joda Time - Joda-Time provides a quality replacement for the Java date and time classes.
• Android About Page - Create an awesome About Page for your Android App in 2 minutes
• [...] - Description

Database Model

Field Name	Data Type	Length	Example Data
_id	hash	64	507f1f77bcf86cd799439011
title	string	1024	Maria Expected to...
date	string	32	2017-09-16T10:09:22Z
source	string	1024	http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41292528
cover	string	1024	https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1024x576/p05g9f0r.jpg
article	string	∞	Tropical Storm Maria will threaten portions...
summary	string	∞	Tropical Storm Maria is...
slug	string	1024	maria-expected-to...
saves	number		654
views	number		4532
published	boolean		true
deleted	boolean		false
hidden	boolean		false
keywords	boolean	32	[ String ]
tags	boolean	32	[ String ]

License

2018 FSU License

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