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This pull request focuses on significant user interface enhancements and code refactoring within the application's news display features. It streamlines how headline metadata, such as source and date, is presented across different views and improves the interactive elements like metadata chips. Additionally, it centralizes the handling of user interactions with headlines, particularly concerning ad integration, leading to a more consistent and maintainable architecture.

Type of Change

  • ✨ New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • 🛠️ Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • ❌ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • 🧹 Code refactor
  • ✅ Build configuration change
  • 📝 Documentation
  • 🗑️ Chore

- Add date as a separate text element above metadata chips
- Convert metadata chips to horizontal scrolling ActionChips
- Update chip design with reduced opacity background and increased font weight
- Remove unnecessary padding and border settings from chips
- Remove InterstitialAdManager and related ad code
- Extract headline tap handling logic to a separate class
- Simplify item spacing in the feed
- Update imports and remove unused code
…height

- Replace SliverToBoxAdapter with SliverPadding for better alignment
- Reduce the height of the metadata chips container from 52 to 36
- Adjust padding and clip behavior for improved visual appearance
…source_row

- Change the export statement in feed_core.dart
- This ensures the correct file (headline_source_row.dart) is being exported
- Create a new widget to display the source and publish date of a headline
- Implement tap functionality to navigate to source details
- Use timeago package to format publication date
- Apply theming and styling according to existing design guidelines
- Add HeadlineSourceRow widget to HeadlineTileImageStart
- Remove HeadlineMetadataRow from HeadlineTileImageStart
- Adjust layout to accommodate new source row
- Add HeadlineSourceRow above the image
- Remove HeadlineMetadataRow
- Adjust padding and layout of title text
- Improve image loading and error handling
- Remove HeadlineMetadataRow
- Add HeadlineSourceRow
- Adjust spacing between elements
- Change date format from 'MMM d, yyyy' to 'yyyy/MM/dd' for better internationalization support
- Add AppBloc dependency to get the current locale
- Format relative dates using the current locale
- Simplify some widget code by removing unnecessary braces
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This pull request focuses on significant user interface enhancements and code refactoring within the application's news display features. It streamlines how headline metadata, such as source and date, is presented across different views and improves the interactive elements like metadata chips. Additionally, it centralizes the handling of user interactions with headlines, particularly concerning ad integration, leading to a more consistent and maintainable architecture.

Highlights

  • UI Refactoring for Headline Details: The headline details page has been enhanced to display the creation date prominently and refactor metadata chips into a horizontally scrollable list, improving the visual presentation and user experience.
  • Centralized Headline Tap Handling: The logic for handling headline taps, including interstitial ad triggers and navigation, has been extracted into a dedicated HeadlineTapHandler for better modularity and reusability across different headline tile types.
  • New Headline Source Row Widget: A new HeadlineSourceRow widget has been introduced to consistently display the headline's source and its publication date (formatted using timeago), replacing the previous HeadlineMetadataRow in various feed tiles.
  • Code Cleanup and Dependency Management: Unused imports and ignore comments have been removed, and minor formatting adjustments were made, contributing to a cleaner and more maintainable codebase.
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Code Review

This pull request introduces a series of valuable UI enhancements and refactorings. Key improvements include the creation of a standardized HeadlineSourceRow widget, centralizing headline tap logic with HeadlineTapHandler, and refining the layout on the headline details and feed pages. These changes enhance code maintainability and UI consistency. I've identified one critical layout bug that could cause a render overflow and a couple of medium-severity issues related to code consistency and maintainability. Overall, this is a solid step forward for the codebase.

visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
materialTapTargetSize: MaterialTapTargetSize.shrinkWrap,
),
const chipAvatarSize = 18.0;

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medium

Using a hardcoded value 18.0 for chipAvatarSize makes the code harder to maintain and less consistent with the app's design system. The previous implementation used AppSpacing.md.

If 18.0 is a new standard size, consider adding it as a constant to your AppSpacing class (e.g., AppSpacing.mdLg). If an existing constant from AppSpacing is suitable, please use that instead to maintain consistency.

@fulleni fulleni merged commit 21addca into main Sep 28, 2025
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@fulleni fulleni deleted the AA branch September 28, 2025 15:58
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