Android News App Report

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Android News App Report
INTRODUCTION
The Android News App allows users to know what is happening around their world by getting them
updated on global news.
DESIGN AND RATIONALE
The App was developed using Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It is
composed of:
A. Packages
The app has four user defined packages knows as Utils, Models, MainActivities and MainFragments. All
of them store related java classes thus allowing creation and use of organized java classes.
B. Activities
The app has two activities which has a number of functions that performs a specific task when
executed. The activities include:
i. Splashscreen activity
It is the launcher activity, it appears every time your launch/start the application. It has an animation
that rotates for 3 seconds before the app takes you to the MainActivity. The animation is made up of
the app launcher icon loaded in the XML file using circled image view library.
ii. MainActivity
It is a very basic activity which loads the default fragment(main_fragment) and holds the bottom
navigation menu. When the user selects any of the menu, the activity will call the corresponding
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