Holo Goo.gl

UPDATE

I have decided to migrate the meat of the shortening code to a library. Thomas Devaux has made a beautiful app for goo.gl that's way better than this one ever could have been. I'll leave this repo up for posterity, as it was my first app. It was a great ride!

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My first Android pet project, a Holo Goo.gl app! It's not by any means done, but I wanted to make this repo public to give some code examples for interviews.

I started working on this as a simple project to get some practice with Android development, Google APIs, using a RESTful API in general, HTTP requests, 3rd party libraries, admob, etc. I also wanted to make a nice Goo.gl app, because the apps currently on the play store look pretty outdated UI-wise.

It's been a ton of fun developing, albeit I've had to slow down since school started back up along with a part time internship. I plan on eventually releasing this on the play store, and maybe also taking out the actual Goo.gl portion of it and releasing it as an open source library for other developers to use in their apps.

I apologize in advance for how terrible my code probably looks.

As of right now, it can do the following:

• Authenticate with Google using Android's native account manager
• Shorten a new URL (anonymously or authenticated)
• Get user's URL history + clicks
• Share a shortened URL to other apps as well as receive (and shorten) URLs
• And it's a Card UI!

Some upcoming TODO's

• Improve refresh, it's really slow right now Done!
• Detailed URL metrics activity, including the use of the beautiful Holo Graph library
• Caching URL history (anonymous and authenticated)
• Load more URL history results when scrolled to the bottom (it's a paging thing)

I've use a few wonderful third party libraries, including the following:

• ActiveAndroid (not implemented yet)
• ACRA
• LicensesDialog (not implemented yet)
• ActionbarPullToRefresh
• Android-form-edittext
• ChangeLogLibrary (not implemented yet)

License

 Copyright 2013 Henri Sweers
 
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