README.md

News Buzz

News App created in Flutter using News API for fetching realtime data and Firebase as the backend and authenticator.

Features

• Custom news feed based on selected sources
• Saving articles
• Explore news based on categories
• Search for topics
• Sharing articles

Preview

Dependencies

• Flutter
• Firebase
• Google Sign In
• Flutter Webview Plugin
• News API

Getting Started

1. Setup Flutter

2. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/theankurkedia/newsbuzz.git
$ cd newsbuzz/

3. Setup firebase app

1. You'll need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
2. Once your Firebase instance is created, you'll need to enable anonymous authentication.

• Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
• Click "Authentication" in the left-hand menu
• Click the "sign-in method" tab
• Click "Google" and enable it

3. (skip if not running on Android)

• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name com.yourcompany.news
• Run the following command to get your SHA-1 key:

keytool -exportcert -list -v \
-alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore

• In the Firebase console, in the settings of your Android app, add your SHA-1 key by clicking "Add Fingerprint".
• Follow instructions to download google-services.json
• place google-services.json into newsbuzz/android/app/.

4. (skip if not running on iOS)

• Create an app within your Firebase instance for iOS, with package name com.yourcompany.news
• Follow instructions to download GoogleService-Info.plist, and place it into newsbuzz/ios/Runner in XCode
• Open newsbuzz/ios/Runner/Info.plist. Locate the CFBundleURLSchemes key. The second item in the array value of this key is specific to the Firebase instance. Replace it with the value for REVERSED_CLIENT_ID from GoogleService-Info.plist

4. Run the app

$ flutter run

License

Licensed under the MIT license.