NYTimesSearch is an android app that allows a user to search for articles on web using simple filters. The app utilizes New York Times Search API.
Time spent: ~15 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can search for news article by specifying a query and launching a search. Search displays a grid of image results from the New York Times Search API.
- User can scroll down to see more articles. The maximum number of articles is limited by the API search.
- User can tap on any image in results to see the full text of article full-screen
The following optional features are implemented:
- Used the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box
- User can share an article link to their friends or email it to themselves
- Improved the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
- User can click on "filter icon" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- User can configure advanced search filters such as:
- Begin Date (using a date picker)
- News desk values (Arts, Fashion & Style, Sports)
- Sort order (oldest or newest)
- Subsequent searches have any selected filters applied to the results
- User can configure advanced search filters such as:
- Replaces the default ActionBar with a Toolbar.
- Replace
GridView
with the RecyclerView and theStaggeredGridLayoutManager
to improve the grid of image results displayed. This took awhile to implement. - Use Parcelable instead of Serializable leveraging the popular Parceler library.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories: http://i.imgur.com/clSLYdv.gif
GIF created with LiceCap.
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app. -RecyclerView took a long time to implement. Had numerous, obscure errors in implementing Filters. Link for alternative image was found to not work at last second...
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
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