This is the grid image search app built for the CodePath Android Course. It uses the Google Image API and can search up to 64 images!
Timespent: 11 hours
Completed user stories:
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Required: User can scroll through current popular photos from Instagram
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Required: For each photo displayed, user can see the following details: Graphic, Caption, Username
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Required: User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
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Required: User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
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Required: User can configure advanced search filters
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Required: Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
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Required: User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
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Required: User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
Extensions:
- Optional: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- Optional: Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
- Optional: User can share an image to their friends or email it to themselves
- Optional: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
- Optional: Improve the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
- Optional: Use the StaggeredGridView to display improve the grid of image results
- Optional: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
Walkthrough of all user stories: