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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Introduction |
| 3 | +description: An overview of the Flutter News App Mobile Client. |
| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +import { Card, CardGrid } from '@astrojs/starlight/components'; |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +Welcome to the documentation for the Flutter News App Mobile Client, a key component of the Flutter News App Toolkit. This application is a feature-rich, cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter, designed to deliver a seamless and engaging news consumption experience to your users on both iOS and Android. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +## Core Technologies |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The mobile client is built on a modern, scalable, and maintainable tech stack, ensuring a high-quality foundation for your product. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +- **Framework**: [Flutter](https://flutter.dev/) for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile from a single codebase. |
| 15 | +- **State Management**: [Bloc](https://bloclibrary.dev/) for predictable and testable state management, separating business logic from the UI. |
| 16 | +- **Routing**: [go_router](https://pub.dev/packages/go_router) for a declarative, URL-based navigation system that is robust and easy to manage. |
| 17 | +- **Architecture**: Follows the layered architecture principles outlined in the Core Philosophy, ensuring a clean separation of concerns between the UI, business logic, and data layers. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +## Key Features |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +The mobile client comes packed with features designed to provide a comprehensive user experience. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +<CardGrid> |
| 24 | + <Card title="Dynamic Headlines Feed" icon="newspaper"> |
| 25 | + A customizable news feed that supports pagination, pull-to-refresh, and dynamic content injection for ads and user engagement prompts. |
| 26 | + </Card> |
| 27 | + <Card title="Advanced Search" icon="search"> |
| 28 | + Users can search for headlines, topics, or sources, with results displayed in a clear and intuitive interface. |
| 29 | + </Card> |
| 30 | + <Card title="User Personalization" icon="user"> |
| 31 | + Authenticated users can personalize their experience by following topics and sources, and saving articles to read later. |
| 32 | + </Card> |
| 33 | + <Card title="Comprehensive Settings" icon="settings"> |
| 34 | + A detailed settings module allows users to customize the app's appearance, theme, font size, language, and feed display preferences. |
| 35 | + </Card> |
| 36 | +</CardGrid> |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +## Getting Started |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +To get the mobile client up and running on your local machine, head over to our setup guide. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +- **[Local Setup Guide](./getting-started/local-setup)** |
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