news-app

news-app

Test task for mobile developers.

Task

In order to evaluate your skills and coding style we would like you to develop a small mobile application that consumes https://newsapi.org API RESTFull services.

Application

We would like to have a small application that accomplishes the following:

1. The main screen will load news articles from your selected news source with the following information:
   • Article title.
   • Article description.
   • Article thumbnail.
   • Article published date.
2. When a user taps on any article within the list goes to step 3:
3. The detailed article screen will show detailed information about the article:
   • Article title.
   • Article description.
   • Article thumbnail.
   • Article author.
   • Article published date.
   • Link to article (opens in Safari or in the app)

Procedure

1. Get your API Key as explained within the documentation https://newsapi.org.
2. Send the code the way you feel comfortable with.

Requirements

1. The application should compile without Error and run without crashing.
2. You can use third party libraries with its preference to handle dependencies.
3. Take the opportunity to showcase your coding style and use whatever design pattern (MVC, MVVM, etc) you would normally have used for this kind of task.

Plus

1. Landscape Orientation
2. Pagination or show more for the article list
3. Unit Testing

The 0+X team wishes you good luck and we are looking forward to see your code. If you need any help, please do not hesitate to contact us.