Blocly

An Android RSS feed reader app that (currently) only pull feeds from http://feeds.feedburner.com/androidcentral

Getting Started

Get started by cloning the project to your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/namclu/Blocly.git

Prerequisites

• Android Studio
• minSdkVersion 17
• targetSdkVersion 23

Installing

1. Open Android Studio
2. If the repository is cloned to your local machine, select Open an existing Android Studio project and select the location from which the responsitory was cloned to.
3. If the repository has not been cloned to your local machine, select Check out project from Version Control > GitHub

Git Repository URL: https://github.com/namclu/Blocly
Parent Directory: <Location where you want to store the repository>
Directory Name: <Name of the repository>

4. Build and Run

Author(s)

• Nam Lu - namclu

Concepts Used

• SQLite for database
• NetworkRequest class to obtain data from API
• RecyclerView to display a list of RSS feeds
• Display image library - https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader

Screenshots