How I worked on this project

I worked on this project by programming it all in Android Studio. This was a project in my Mobile Application class where the assignment was to build an application that calls APIs for cat breeds (set with a limit of 10,000 total requests) using a Web Service as a source of data and has a User Interface (UI) created using Jetpack Standards.

How to navigate this project

The project is divided into a few sections with each one having a sub-section. All the front-end programming is done inside the res folder, consisting of different components such as drawable, layout, mipmap, and values. All of the programming these folders is done in XML.

The back-end is all inside the java folder, where they are all divided by fragments. Main class is one file, the code consisting of the drop-down fragment is a separate class file, and the information needed for textbinding is in another file.

Why I built the project this way

Building the project this way allowed me to implement best-coding practices where everything is easy to navigate and all the fragments are easily found based off their names and locations.

If I had more time I would change this

I tried implementing this program a few different ways. Initially the way it was designed, I would click the refresh button and the program would load a new cat API request. But I had to change it to be the way you see it due to the assignment requrements asking for that specific output. However, if I were to change anything I would want to change the application to load random Cats on the click of a button instead of listing them all out since that sounds more exciting (atleast to me).