This is a Android app that uses the Google Search API to search for and display photos
Time spent: ~14 hours total
Completed user stories:
- Required: User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
- Required: User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- Required: User can configure advanced search filters such as size, color filter, type, site
- Required: Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
- Required: User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
- Required: User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
- 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: Improve the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
- Advanced: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
- 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
Walkthrough of all user stories:
