Take home assignment from Quantum Innovations

• Firebase →
  • This one is pretty obvious given the authentication needs of the app, The email, google and facebook authentication is being handled through firebase auth.
• Retrofit w/ Gson →
  • This one was used to make API calls and parse the json to data classes automatically
• Glide →
  • A very image loading library for news images
• Country code picker →
  • This was used to remove the tedious jo of getting country codes and validating → https://github.com/hbb20/CountryCodePickerProject
• Times formatter →
  • Formatting the published time to time difference {pretty niche use case but made life much easier}
• Android custom tabs →
  • Loading the news url in web views {wasn’t part of the requirements but felt incomplete without it}
• Splash compat library →
  • Recently shifted to release candidate, this library makes the sweet sweet Android 12 splash screens available for older devices.
• Other jetpack libraries like Lifecycle component or kotlin libraries like coroutines.

• This link doesn't cover all edge cases and functionality but only the main ones.