BBC News Apps (iOS/Android) Coding Challenge

Introduction

You have been asked to kick off a new native news app, initially consisting of two screens

The first screen will simply display a list of the headlines (fetched from a server - see below) and the last updated date
When the user taps on a headline, the application then shows a second screen containing the headline and the last updated date again, as well as the introductory paragraph

The designer has asked that the typography be as follows:

Components	Color	Font
headline	0x000000	large, bold, system font
last updated	0x3d3d3d	normal, light, system font,
introductory	0x000000	normal, regular, system font

The returned timestamp is in epoch time but the design calls for this to be a human readable day, month and year. So, for example, it should show as "1 January 1970" for an epoch timestamp of 0.

The user should also be able to trigger a reload of the data from the server.

API

The list of headlines is available at https://github.com/bbc/news-apps-coding-challenge/blob/master/headlines.json

curl -G https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bbc/news-apps-coding-challenge/master/headlines.json

Analytics

The product manager needs you to record interaction and network events as people use the app. This can be done by issuing “fire and forget” GET requests to https://github.com/bbc/news-apps-coding-challenge/blob/master/analytics

Event specific query parameters should be appended to the URL as follows:

event=load – any network request
time=xxx - the time (in ms) for the network request to complete
event=display – whenever a screen is shown (the headline or the article)
screen=XXX - an identifier for the screen that was shown

curl -G https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bbc/news-apps-ios-coding-challenge/master/analytics?event=load&data=100

Languages

For iOS roles, you can write the app in either Swift or Objective-C, but you should not use any third party libraries. For Android roles, you can write the app in either Kotlin or Java, but you should not use any third party libraries.

Considerations

This is an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of what modern app development looks like. We believe that good contributors to achieving this are typically code readability, unit testing, separation of concerns, the open/closed principle, error handling, and an intuitive, responsive, user interface.

Remember we are looking for a demonstration of your skills - not perfection. A comment about what you would do next might be better than squeezing in everything, but not doing anything to your usual standard. We would typically expect this to take you a few evenings at most.

Playbook

You may find our playbook of use in guiding your development and decision making

https://github.com/bbc/news-weather-apps-playbook

Submissions

To submit your code, please create a private GitHub repo (it’s free) and share your code repo with our GitHub user, bbcnewsapps. Please note that we will be considering your git commit history during our evaluation.

Under no circumstances make the repository public. Please email your BBC Careers contact separately as well to confirm your submission.

raphaelolu/news-apps-coding-challenge

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