/PhotoGallery

This is just a tutorial project standing for fetching and displaying photos from Flickr

Primary LanguageKotlin

PhotoGallery

This is just a tutorial project standing for fetching and displaying photos from Flickr.

application.mov

What used:

  • RecyclerView along with Fragments are used for display numerous (potentially) images utilizing minimal possible memory usage;
  • Retrofit, OkHttp and Gson libraries for image fetching;
  • To segregate data dependency from activity lifecycle ViewModel and LiveData were applied;
  • WebView to create an embedded looking browser instance.

Features

  • Images can be discovered with search bar at the top of the app:
    search.mov
  • Search query can be cleared and Flickr's 'interesting' photos will be shown:
    clear_history.mov
  • Tap on photo to open full size version on Flickr site;
    webview.mov
  • Latest search query is saved and restored on app restart:
    restart.mov
  • If new photos related to saved search query are found a notification pops out (can be toggled by "Start/stop polling" in options menu):
    notification.mov