v3.0

✨100% Kotlin
✨Coroutine and Flow first 🚩
✨Migrated to AndroidX 🚚
✨Internal refactoring to reflect current state of Android development
✨Added tests for Repository 😍
✨Updated readme with new aim of the project
✨Official focus on Emojis 😛

Design and usability improvements

• New: App color, theming and icon
• New: Design for showing news article
• Added Progress and Empty state for the News list
• Updated: Bumped the minSDK to API 17
• Bumped to newer version of dependencies.

Cleaner code

• New: Moved to a centralized gradle dependency management with the help of Kotlin and buildSrc. For more on this refer here.
• New: LiveDataExtensions which comes with a simpler observe function.
• New: ViewModelExtensions which cuts the boilerplate required to get ViewModel using ViewModelProviders.
• Updated: LiveDataCallAdapter and LiveDataAdapter to perform conversion of Retrofit Response to Resource class which provides state and data to the UI.
• Bumped to newer version of dependencies.
• Added TODO at places for future improvements.
• Overall code-conciseness.
• Improved documentation.