ImageSearchAndroid
A image search Android App using google image search API
Time spent : 16 hours
User Storeis
Basic
- User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
- User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- User can configure advanced search filters such as:
- Size (small, medium, large, extra-large)
- Color filter (black, blue, brown, gray, green, etc...)
- Type (faces, photo, clip art, line art)
- Site (espn.com)
- Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
- User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
- User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
Advanced
- Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- Advanced: Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
- Advanced: User can share an image to their friends or email it to themselves
- Advanced: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
- Advanced: 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
Extra
- Guesture (swipe) to navigate to previous/next image
- Low resolution image as place holder before high resolution image is loaded
- Search keyword and filters are saved in SharedPreferences
##GIF walkthrough
##Credits
- R2M : https://github.com/magnetsystems/r2m-plugin-android
- Retrofit : https://github.com/square/retrofit
- picasso : https://github.com/square/picasso
- AndroidStaggeredGrid : https://github.com/f-barth/AndroidStaggeredGrid