This application is an Instagram Clone photo sharing app using Parse as its backend.
Time spent: 20 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User sees app icon in home screen.
- User can sign up to create a new account using Parse authentication
- User can log in to his or her account
- The current signed in user is persisted across app restarts
- User can log out of his or her account
- User can take a photo, add a caption, and post it to "Instagram"
- User can view the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
- User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
- User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption.
The following stretch features are implemented:
- Style the login page to look like the real Instagram login page.
- Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
- User can load more posts once they reach the bottom of the feed using endless scrolling.
- User should switch between different tabs using fragments and a Bottom Navigation View.
- Feed Tab (to view all posts from all users)
- Capture Tab (to make a new post using the Camera and Photo Gallery)
- Profile Tab (to view only the current user's posts, in a grid)
- Show the username and creation time for each post
- User Profiles:
- Allow the logged in user to add a profile photo
- Display the profile photo with each post
- Tapping on a post's username or profile photo goes to that user's profile page
- User Profile shows posts in a grid
- After the user submits a new post, show an indeterminate progress bar while the post is being uploaded to Parse
- User can comment on a post and see all comments for each post in the post details screen.
- User can like a post and see number of likes for each post in the post details screen.
The following additional features are implemented:
- Like count is more like Instagram by displaying "Liked by user and x others"
- Comment view has Instagram's design and behavior
- A custom User class is implemented to ease user-related actions
- Signup, details and profile screens have Instagram's design
- The profile view shows the user's name, bio, follower count, following count, post count and post grid
Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):
- More efficient ways to query lists of pointers
- Custom user objects
- Making a more dynamic use of the camera and adding filters/transformations
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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List any 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- Android Async Http Client - networking library
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