Google Image Search Demo

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