Inspiration
When sourcing for news articles for our English projects and essays, we often spend a lot of time on just searching for appropriate articles that actually suit our needs. With this project, we hope to streamline this process and make it more convenient for users to search for suitable sources.
What it does
This app searches for articles based on keywords and languages from a variety of sources using News API. You can also sort the results and access your browsing history.
How we built it
We used Android Studio for the app and Github for collaboration.
Challenges we ran into
We spent a large chunk of time thinking of a topic. When we finally got to it, we found that a lot of news sources were paywalled, making it difficult for us to access the content of many articles.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Successfully handling API calls and sourcing the news articles.
What we learned
We should be better prepared for future hackathons and spend more time on preparing for our presentation.
What's next for news zealand
We could improve our API system, and add additional filtering options, for example searching only specific news sources or websites.
Built With
- android
- kotlin
- newsapi
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