Day 14.md

Day 14 - Refactoring Tic Tac Toe

1. Fit and finish

   • Better background
   • Larger icons
   • Stronger highlighted cells
   • Cover fit

2. Fix fullBoard

3. Remove Flutter dependencies in gamelogic.dart

   • Use enum instead of x and o widgets
   • Use List<List> for board
   • Use List<List> for colorBoard
   • use a method to convert enum or bool to the appropriate widget

4. Don't duplicate code which creates cells and rows

5. Use Token instead of String to represent current player

   • Refactor winnerPopup() into two distinct functions:
     1. Change player if game is not finished
     2. Get the status text
   • Write test cases to each new function

6. Use GestureDetector instead of FlatButton

Assignment for the Day!

1. Refactoring from morning

• Do points 1, 2, 3 and 4 from above

2. New York Times Clone - This is what you have to make

Video Link

Steps to achieve this

1. Use this starter repo and make a NewsCard Widget, add it to NewsListPage

• You can add any content you like at this point but get the layout right

2. Repeat the NewsCard in a ListView to make screen scrollable, you can have different content on these cards to have something like this

3. Fetch Real Data from https://newsapi.org, you will have to sign up for free account to get api key

   • Create a network helper to call the api, parse the data into list of newsItem
   • Make sure to handle scenarios when you are not given urlToImage parameter

4. Use the fetched data and ListView.builder to build list of real news

5. On tap of any news Item open the news detail page (new widget NewsDetailPage) which looks like this

   • Make sure it is scrollable
   • the caption of image is a placeholder text as the API doesn't supply that

6. Pass the real data from newsCard to NewsDetailPage