Mobile Interview Assignment

Overview

Use an API to fetch list of Articles, parse, persist to disk and present in a List. Users should be able to see the detail of articles by tapping on each list item.

Mocked Articles API:

curl --request GET 'https://run.mocky.io/v3/5de1afae-d287-4210-a07e-eb73d55550bb'

This endpoint returns a dummy list of articles with the follosing structure:

[{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "Realigned multimedia framework",
  "description": "nisl aenean lectus pellentesque eget nunc donec quis orci eget orci vitae mattis nibh ligula",
  "author": "sfolley0@nhs.uk",
  "release_date": "6/25/2018",
  "image": "http://dummyimage.com/366x582.png/5fa2dd/ffffff"
}]

Acceptance criteria:

• User must be able to see the latest available articles whenever he/she launches the app.
• In case of data synchroniastion failure due to a 500 internal server error or network coverage issue we need to retry 3 times with 2 seconds backoff delay before showing an error message to user.
• User must be able to see the latest -locally- stored articles (if any) in case of data synchroniastion failure.
• All locally stored data are encrypted. (optional plus point)
• The article list must be sorted by the given date.
• Article list contains the following items:
  • Article title: title
  • First two lines of description
  • Article header image : image
• User must be able to see the full detail of articles by tapping each list item.
• The following items must be shown in the article's detail page:
  • Article header image : image
  • Article title: title
  • Article content : description
  • Author e-mail address: author
  • Article's release date : date (this date must be shown by Wed, Jul 8, '20 format)

Design mockup:

Minimum architecture requirement(s)

• This app should follow the multi-module architecture.
• The app must at least have two modules (articles and details)

Minimum technical Expectation

• Minimum 80% test coverage.
• Clean architecture and coding style.
• Use Hilt/Dagger for dependency injection.
• App should support API 23 and above.
• As a mobile engineer you should be able to detect/prevent error and possible edge cases.

Next Step

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