Project 1 - Instagram Client

Instagram Client 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: 8 hours spent in total

User Stories

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 2 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:

• Formatting for the number of likes to include commas
• Pluralized the "likes" string

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

• I had trouble changing the action bar color. In particular, I missed that there are two attributes you have to set (for compatibility reasons): android:actionBarStyle and actionBarStyle

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
• RoundImageView - Round image view for profile picture
• PrettyTime - Relative time formatting

License

Copyright 2015 Anna Geiduschek

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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