rohitjb/ios

Medibank coding test for iOS

Articles Headlines App

Create a proof of concept for an App that displays trend articles and allows the user to save the news for reading later.

Requirements

• App to be built with a tab bar main navigation containing 3 tabs: Headlines, Sources, Saved.
• Headlines: screen to display a list of headlines based on the user-selected sources, each row should display (title, description, author, and thumbnail picture)
  • Tapping on a row should open the headline URL to read the full article within the app.
  • When viewing an article the user should be able to save it for reading later.
• Sources: screen to display the list of available sources for articles, the user should be able to select multiple sources and the selection should persist user sessions.
• Saved: screen to display a list of previously saved headlines, tapping a row should open the article for reading, the same way as the Headlines screen.
• User should be able to delete previously saved articles
• Previously saved articles should persist app launches
• Integrate the app with https://newsapi.org/ API to fetch data (register to get your API Key)

Key points under evaluation

• Design and implement an app that can achieve all of the goals described above
• Highly modular
• Use of modern Swift syntax
• Good use of MVC, MVVM preferable
• Reuse of components
• Simple and concise code and project structure
• Clarity over brevity
• It is expected from the App to offer a good UX
• Programmatic UI with UIKit
• RxSwift would be a big bonus
• Unit testing, provide coverage of important areas in the code

Points of consideration

• Pagination is not required, API will return only the latest 10 articles per source
• Documentation for the API https://newsapi.org/#documentation
• Filter sources to be only for the English language
• A note on the usage of certain Libraries, you can use libraries you would normally use in a real project, however, use good judgment when deciding which ones, for example, using a NewsAPI client is not acceptable

Allocated time

• Please provide submission no more than 3 days after received.
• Submissions will only be accepted via GitHub.