AirFi News Panel 📰 (iOS Assignment)

This iOS application simulates the AirFi News Panel — a secure internal platform for managing article submissions and approvals. Built using Swift, Core Data, and MVVM, it emphasizes clean architecture, offline-first capabilities, and professional UI practices.

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✨ Features

• 🔒 Login Flow for Author and Reviewer roles
• ✍️ Author Panel to:
  • View your own articles
  • Sync articles to server (mocked)
• ✅ Reviewer Panel to:
  • View unapproved articles grouped by author
  • Select & approve articles
  • Persist approval state locally
• 🔁 Offline-First Design
  • All data stored in Core Data
  • No external APIs or backend — purely mock-driven
• 🔃 Pagination on Reviewer side for performance
• 📱 Fully adaptive UI built with UIKit and AutoLayout

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🛠 Architecture

• MVVM with Service + Repository layers
• Core Data for persistent local storage
• MockAPIService to simulate network sync
• AutoSyncManager to sync data only when local changes exist

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📂 Project Structure

AirFiNewsPanel/
│
├── Models/
│   ├── ArticleMetadata
│   └── ArticleDetail
│
├── DTOs/
│   ├── ArticleMetadataDTO.swift
│   └── ArticleDetailDTO.swift
│
├── Services/
│   └── MockAPIService.swift
│
├── Repository/
│   └── ArticleRepository.swift
│
├── ViewModels/
│   ├── AuthorNewsViewModel.swift
│   └── ReviewerNewsViewModel.swift
│
├── Views/
│   ├── AuthorNewsViewController.swift
│   ├── ReviewerNewsViewController.swift
│   └── ReviewerNewsTableViewCell.swift

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🧪 Testing Guidelines

• ✅ Verify login and role-based redirection
• ✅ Test Author sync functionality
• ✅ Scroll and approve articles as Reviewer
• ✅ Ensure state persists across app launches
• ✅ Check pagination & UI rendering for large datasets

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/AirFiNewsPanel.git

2. Open in Xcode 15+

3. Run on simulator or device

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📌 Notes

• Only articles with new local changes are synced.
• Approved articles are filtered out per reviewer’s name.
• approvedBy is stored as [String] in Core Data using a value transformer.

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👨‍💻 Author

Akash Razdan
LinkedIn • iOS Developer

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🧠 About This Repo

This project was built as part of a professional take-home assignment for AirFi. It follows industry practices in architecture, code quality, and design. Structured to support discussion in interviews and system design rounds.