GridImageSearch
This is an Android demo application for using the Google image search API and viewing the results in an infinite scrolling grid view.
Time spent: 5 hours spent in total
Completed user stories:
- 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)
- 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)
User story I didn't agree with: :P
- Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results This would be trivial. I would just keep concatinating the url. But I actually didn't want to do that.
Notes: There are a few fixes needed:
- Typing return in the search query text field crashes the app.
- It would be better to show a spinner in the image view while the image loads. Right now it just pops in.
- And when the grid view item is being reused, I should clear the image right away, right now it switches from the old image to the new one.
- The spinner widths are kinda whack. I need to figure out how to fix them.
Walkthrough of all user stories:
