https://github.com/mubaraknative/news-cast-mb

NewsCastMB is a feature rich news application build to demonstrate Modern Android Development best practices and latest tools such as DI (Hilt), Retrofit, Paging, Room, Navigation, Coroutines (Flow), Preference Settings.
https://github.com/mubaraknative/news-cast-mb

android-architecture-components coil-image-loader coroutines coroutines-flow dagger-hilt gson kotlin livedata-viewmodel navigation-component news-app paging3 preference-screen preferences-datastore retrofit room-database room-persistence-library

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NewsCastMB is a feature rich news application build to demonstrate Modern Android Development best practices and latest tools such as DI (Hilt), Retrofit, Paging, Room, Navigation, Coroutines (Flow), Preference Settings.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mubaraknative/news-cast-mb
• Owner: MubarakNative
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2024-03-08T17:45:53.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-26T15:43:24.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-26T17:44:58.339Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: android-architecture-components, coil-image-loader, coroutines, coroutines-flow, dagger-hilt, gson, kotlin, livedata-viewmodel, navigation-component, news-app, paging3, preference-screen, preferences-datastore, retrofit, room-database, room-persistence-library
• Language: Kotlin
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.5 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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![Screenshots](Screenshots/NewsCastMbAppScreenshot.png)

# NewsCastMB

**NewsCastMB** is a feature-rich news application built to demonstrate Modern Android Development best practices and the latest tools.

## 🛠 Built With

This app is developed using:

- **Android Views (XML)** for UI design.

- **Room** database for offline news caching.

- **Paging 3** library for efficient pagination and large data handling.

- **Retrofit** for making network requests.

- **Dagger Hilt** for dependency injection.

- **Navigation Component** for seamless fragment navigation.

- **Coil** for efficient image loading.

- **Kotlin Flows & Coroutines** for reactive UI.

- **PreferenceSettingCompat** for managing app settings.

## 🚀 Features  

![Screenshots](Screenshots/NewsCastDarkScreenshot.png)  

Key features of **NewsCastMB**:

- ✅ Offline article caching using Paging 3 Remote Mediator.

- ✅ Bookmark articles for offline reading using Room.

- ✅ Multiple news categories with a tab layout.

- ✅ Edge-to-edge UI, drawing behind the system bars.

- ✅ Light & Dark theme support using PreferenceSettingCompat.

- ✅ Search functionality to find specific articles.

- ✅ Swipe to delete for bookmarked news and more...

## 👀 Note  

> **Before you begin**

This app uses the **NewsAPI** service to fetch articles. To display news, you need to [register an account](https://newsapi.org/register), get an API key, and include it in **`AppConstants.API_KEY`**.

## 🔧 Improvements  

This app is built with **Android Views** and relies on an external news API, which is not free.  

For a more advanced version, check out **[WikiNewsFeed](https://github.com/MubarakNative/WikiNewsFeed)**—built with **Jetpack Compose** and powered by the free **WikiNews API**.