TopStoriesForHackerNews
An app that pulls the top stories from Hacker News and stores them remotely in a SQLite Database. After downloading the data online, the title of the articles and their associated webpages can be viewed offline. AsyncTask and Retrofit are both implemented for execution time comparisons.
Features:
- Hacker News API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- Parsing JSON objects with Retrofit
- Parsing raw HTML data with Retrofit
- Using AsyncTask to make Synchronous RF calls
- Permanant data storage with SQLiteDatabase
- Handler class using SQLiteOpenHelper
- Parsing JSON with AsyncTask
- Displays execution time for comparisons between the clients
- StringBuilder for faster generation of Strings
- Custom buttons
- Viewing webpages
- Interactive ListView