Popular Photos is an android app that allows a user to check out popular photos from Instagram. The app utilizes Instagram API to display images and basic image information to the user.
Time spent: I'll try to put a value in here for next week's assignment, because I know it's useful information for you to aggregate from the class as a whole, but right now I just don't want to feel like I'm in a race or something.
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can scroll through current popular photos from Instagram
- For each photo displayed, user can see the following details:
- Graphic, Caption, Username
- Relative timestamp, like count, user profile image
The following optional features are implemented:
- Display each user profile image using a RoundedImageViewDisplay each user profile image using a RoundedImageView
- Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
- Improved the user interface through styling and coloring
The following bonus features are implemented:
- Show last 2 comments for each photo
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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OK, this one --
- Display each photo with the same style and proportions as the real Instagram
-- confuses me. On one hand, I think so, because all the photos displayed look like perfectly fine Instagram photos, but on the other hand I can't make Instagram display the exact same photos for comparison. With photos that display with whitespace on the sides and/or top and bottom of the photo, this does seem to be part of the image the person uploaded rather than that I am displaying it incorrectly. Also, I guess that Instagram photos used to all be square, but this is no longer the case: Thinking Outside the Square: Support for Landscape and Portrait Formats on Instagram
Also, this --
- Show latest comments for each photo
-- is listed as an "optional" feature, whereas this --
- Show last 2 comments for each photo
-- is listed as a "bonus" feature, and I'm not really sure what the difference is.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
- RoundedImageView - Fast ImageView (and Drawable) that supports rounded corners (and ovals or circles)
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