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Hacker news

Hacker News is a social news website that mainly focuses on computer science and entrepreneurship. The objective of this task is to create a client with all the main features of the HackerNewsAPI.

Instructions

Your app should have the following functionalities:

• Login button. Once you tap it a log in page must be displayed.
• Show a list of all fetched posts on the main screen.
• Each post should have an upvote option for voting.
• Each post should display the total number of votes and comments they have.
• Display the username of the post creator.
• Display the submission time of the post.
• Open the link in a WebView when a post is tapped.
  • The user must be able to return to the main page once in the WebView.

On the website, users can Post, Comment, or Reply only when they have an account.

• You have to register using the website. In other words, you must be able to login with your actual login and password from the Hacker News website.
• Login using your app. Observe how the login is done on the website and emulate it.

When users are logged in, they should be able to:

• Create new posts which will have:
  • title, URL, and a description.
• Delete their own posts.
• Upvote or hide/remove their votes.
• Log out.

Note: If the user is not logged in but tries to access any of the above-mentioned actions, the user should be sent to the login page of the app.