The final project is a chance for you to combine and practice everything you learned in this section of the Nanodegree program. You will be making your own app that connects to the Internet to provide news articles on a topic of your choice.
The goal is to create a News Feed app which gives a user regularly-updated news from the Internet related to a particular topic, person, or location. The presentation of the information as well as the topic is up to you.
Why this project? In the most recent portion of the Nanodegree program, you worked to build the News app. Along the way, you learned about connecting to the Internet in Android, parsing responses from an API, updating the information in your app, and properly displaying that information. Practicing these skills is imperative in order to build apps that delight and surprise users by anticipating their needs and supplying them with relevant information.
What will I learn? This project is about combining various ideas and skills we’ve been practicing throughout the course. They include:
Connecting to an API Parsing the JSON response Handling error cases gracefully Updating information regularly Using an AsyncTask Doing network operations independent of the Activity lifecycle Use Uri.Builder class to add query parameters to the URL Note: As the focus of this program is Java, only projects completed with Java as the source code will be accepted. Projects using Kotlin as the source code will not be accepted.