Developed by Jiashu Yang, Andres Perez-Doval, Maudeline Deus, and Jonathan Adams.

Zenith, meaning the peak, or the summit, is intended to enable users to stand at the highest points of global information and media. Zenith is an Android world news app that allows users to explore various countries and create a truly global citizen. To accomplish this, users can save specific countries or news categories they are interested in, and see targeted information in an updating feed, from categories such as business and sports, to entertainment and health. Each supported country also has its own page, where users can see news, general statistics, and an image of the country. There are additional features such as searching, filters, and more, so if any of this is interesting to you, please download and give it a try!

Final notes:

• if feed/news not loading, either internet isn't working, or the API key ran out of calls. In the latter case, go to ZenithAPIHelper and change to a new key

3/27: Divided responsibilities for sprint 1, and agreed upon what should be completed by next meeting.

3/30: Met with our CA mentor, further discussed goals by next meeting and divided a few additional tasks.

4/1: Reviewed what needs to be completed in the last week

4/3: Reviewed what needs to be completed in the last week

4/5: worked together and discussed our current progress

4/6: met with CA and discussed current progress leading up to last meeting

4/8: completed our sprint 1 implementation, and worked on our presentation

4/9: recorded our presentation, submitted

4/13: discussed sprint 2 tasks and met with CA mentor again

4/17: discussed sprint 2 progress and discussed each others' work

4/20: met with CA mentor and discussed what has been completed for sprint 2, all is going well

4/21: practiced presentation and created slides

4/22: practiced presentation

4/24: practiced presentation and discussed bugs

4/27: final meeting with CA mentor

Feed / User Profile / Country List functionality

• Allows users to set news and country preferences and see those included in the feed
• Added refresh for feed
• Added color tags / country tag for feed
• Added "My Countries" filter button on profile
• Added error handling for when no articles can be retrieved
• Added error handling for when flags cannot be loaded

Country Profile

• Added error handling for when articles and country statistics cannot be loaded

Explore

• Added scrollable map in Explore
• Added pull-up tab
• Added error handling for when flags cannot load

Search functionality in Explore / Country List

• Search for individual countries using their name or substrings of their name
• Added error handling for no country found

General Styling

• Made views look more uniform for different devices
• Fixed styling inconsistencies
• Changed some colors

Country List / Profile styling

• Added country flag and map images using drawables / API
• Added styling for the country details / statistics page

Bug fixes

• Fixes for bugs from feed, API, country profile, and others

Basic navigation and placeholders for Sprint 2 features

• Includes custom classes, activities, layouts, etc.

API functionality

• Wikipedia API, News API, and API Ninjas country news and "This Day in History" APIs

Country history, news, and general information displayed upon clicking a country

• Accessible through the "See all" / Country List activity
• Uses APIs to populate each view

Database

• Added our functions to the DAO
• Created custom classes and the database

Country List

• Displays each country in a recyclerview, clicking results in navigating to that country's information
• Country graphics (map) and formatted information will be completed in Sprint 2
• Search and filtering will be completed in Sprint 2

Feed

• Pull to load more articles
• Currently coded to give business news from the USA
• Custom design, news categorization, randomization, and reading individual articles will be done in Sprint 2

Profile

• "User preferences" displays a list of user preferences
• "My Countries" will load list of countries saved by the user, will be completed in Sprint 2
• Functionality will be fleshed out in Sprint 2