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: 20 hours spent in total
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:
- User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest popular photos
- Show latest comments for each photo
- Display each photo with the same style and proportions as the real Instagram
- 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 3 comments for each photo
- Allow user to view all comments for an image within a separate activity or dialog fragment
- Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the VideoView
The following additional features are implemented:
- Added an animated like button!
- Clicking on the username, callout, location or a hashtag displays a new page with recent media for the selected option
- Overflow menu displayed when clicked on the 'Settings' icon for each item lets the user copy the share URL for the image to clipboard
- Maintains a backstack so user can browse back to the previous page
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
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