Freshly Pressed

An Android App that lists the most recent stories from WordPress.com Discover.

Resources

• Discover REST endpoint.
• OKHttp for networking.

Building

1. Clone the git repository
2. Run ./gradlew build

Your Task

Display the "Featured Image" for each post that has one within the list of posts in the app.

• Treat this as if you own the app, and you'll be releasing the finished product and source code under your own name.
• Keep in mind:
  • Android's Code Style Guidelines for Contributors
  • i18n: every user visible string should be translatable.
  • Security, best practices, code documentation, etc.
• Don't be code-shy and feel free to explore other parts of the app, not only those you need to touch to solve your problem.
• If you spot any bugs or areas for improvement, please go ahead and make changes to polish up the app.
• Commit changes to the git repository that we provided to you, splitting up commits as necessary. We’d love to see a pull request with your changes.
• Feel free to change anything you want in this repository (project structure, build configuration, README, etc.).
• Let us know when you're done with the test.

Take the time you need, but while there’s no hard time limit most candidates usually spend about 4-6 hours to make their improvements.

CODE TEST RESULT

To perform the code test I divided it into three subtasks and each of them has its own pull request to be able to review them more easily:

• DROID-01: Retrofit and Repository Adds a repository pattern to separate the model from the view and implements the Retrofit library to map the API responses into the models.
• DROID-02: MVVM and Coroutines Implements MVVM architecture to separate the business logic, model and views and also allow be aware of the view's lifecycle and also integrates coroutines approach to perform the network requests.
• DROID-03: UI/UX Improvements Here, I implemented the main task -Display the "Featured Image" for each post- and it also implements all the list screens best practices like swipe to refresh and load more behaviors.

If you want to see all my changes, I created a separated branch code_test_samoreque_all_changes with their respective pull request

Next steps

For lack of time I couldn't implement the next best practices:

• Dependency injection using Dagger
• Search functionality