This is an Android demo application for displaying photos from Google Image Search.
Time spent: 12+ hours
Walkthrough: .gifv
Completed user stories:
- Required: User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results
- Required: User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- Required: Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
- Required: User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
- Required: User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
- 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
- Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display improve the grid of image results
- Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
Notes:
- Used Retrofit to map API to objects
- Added some progress bars
Todo:
- Cleanup