mikejs / congress

Android app for tracking and contacting your legislators, and learning about new bills and laws.

Features

• Find members of Congress by using your phone's location, a zipcode, a last name, or a state.
• Read the latest bills and laws.
• Read tweets and watch videos from members' Twitter and YouTube accounts.
• Reply to a member of Congress on Twitter from within the app, using your own account.
• Read the latest news about them, using the Yahoo News API.

Setup

When setting this up, make sure to copy keys.xml.example to res/values/keys.xml and fill in your Sunlight API key and Yahoo News API key.

To fetch bill information, you will need to enter a base URL for the Drumbone API. You can use the following URL fragment as the value for "drumbone_base_url":

http://drumbone.services.sunlightlabs.com/v1/api/

Issue Tracking

Use the Github Issues page for this project.