GoogleImagesSearch

An Android app for viewing Google Images search results, built during a @codepath course on app development in Android. The purpose of the assignment was to practice more with UIs/Activities, Intents, and third party resources.

Details

• How much time did this take?
  • This took me probably 12-15 hours of dev time. Most of that was spent on the UI layouts (including iterations).
• Required user stories completed:
  • User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
  • User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
  • User can configure advanced search filters such as:
    • Size (small, medium, large, extra-large)
    • Color filter (black, blue, brown, gray, green, etc...)
    • Type (faces, photo, clip art, line art)
    • Site (espn.com)
  • Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
  • User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
  • User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages - API v1 limitation)
• Advanced optional user stories completed:
  • Error cases reported via Toasts (no internet, parse error, API pagination limit reached)
  • Toolbar instead of ActionBar
    • SearchView on Toolbar
  • Intents for sharing images to other apps on fullscreen view
  • Improved user interface (a bit)
• Bonus optional user stories completed:
  • StaggeredGridView instead of GridView
• My own additional features
  • Ability to open source web page/article/etc. where the image was found
  • Ability to open standalone image URL in a browser (app) of your choice
  • Dimensions of source shown on fullscreen page
  • Image title shown on initial results page
  • Image title and content shown on fullscreen view
    • Can be dismissed/enabled with a long click on the fullscreen image
      • Haptic feedback (vibrate) on dismiss/enable
  • Swipe left or right on the fullscreen view to see the other results
  • Clickable hashtags and usernames

####Demo time! enjoy these demos of the latest features (made with LICEcap)

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