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News Summary App

Want

An app that grabs all the popular news sources and all their articles, on articles where they have similar headlines, it'll allow the user to select a source or a summary of all articles. And if its articles are not similar per source, the menu to select sources will have the only source and the summary option.

How

• Step 1: Android IDE setup
• Step 2: Plan Your App- Define Features: List out all the features you want in your app, such as:
  • Fetching news articles from multiple sources
  • Comparing similar headlines
  • Providing summaries
  • User interface for selecting sources and viewing summaries
  • Design UI/UX: Tools like Figma or Adobe XD can be helpful.
• Step 3: Fetch News Articles- Choose News APIs: Use APIs like NewsAPI, Google News API, or GDELT to fetch news articles.
  • Set Up API Calls: Use Retrofit or OkHttp libraries to make network requests to these APIs.
• Step 4: Compare Headlines- Text Similarity Algorithm: Implement a text similarity algorithm to compare headlines. You can use libraries like Apache OpenNLP or Google's ML Kit for Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Group Similar Articles: Group articles with similar headlines together.
  • Step 5: Provide Summaries- Summarization Algorithm: Use a summarization algorithm to generate summaries of articles. You can use libraries like Sumy or implement your own using NLP techniques.
  • Display Summaries: Provide an option for users to view summaries of grouped articles.
• Step 6: Build the User Interface- Main Screen: Display a list of news articles with options to view by source or summary.
  • Detail Screen: Show the full article or summary when a user selects an article.
  • Settings Screen: Allow users to customize their news sources and preferences.
• Step 7: Test Your App- Unit Testing: Write unit tests for your code to ensure it works as expected.
  • UI Testing: Test the user interface to make sure it is intuitive and responsive.
• Step 8: Deploy Your App- Publish on Google Play: Follow the guidelines to publish your app on the Google Play Store.
  • Gather Feedback: Encourage users to provide feedback and use it to improve your app.

Example Code SnippetHere's a basic example of how you might set up a Retrofit call to fetch news articles:

public interface NewsApiService {
    @GET("v2/top-headlines")
    Call<NewsResponse> getTopHeadlines(@Query("apiKey") String apiKey, @Query("sources") String sources);
}

// In your Activity or ViewModel
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
    .baseUrl("https://newsapi.org/")
    .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
    .build();

NewsApiService service = retrofit.create(NewsApiService.class);
Call<NewsResponse> call = service.getTopHeadlines("YOUR_API_KEY", "bbc-news, cnn");
call.enqueue(new Callback<NewsResponse>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(Call<NewsResponse> call, Response<NewsResponse> response) {
        if (response.isSuccessful()) {
            List<Article> articles = response.body().getArticles();
            // Process articles
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onFailure(Call<NewsResponse> call, Throwable t) {
        // Handle failure
    }
});