Search for images and generate a grid view.
Time spent: 8 hours total.
Completed user stories:
- Required: User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
- Required: User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- Required: 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)
- Required: Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
- Required: User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
- Required: User can scroll down ÒinfinitelyÓ to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
- Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- Advanced: Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
- Advanced: User can share an image to their friends or email it to themselves
- Advanced: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
- Advanced: Improve the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
- Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display visually interesting image results
- Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
Release Notes:
I'm sorry. This is the lamest Image Search app you will see. I just had enough time to do the bare minimum, and nothing more. Future apps will be better - I hope...
Implementation Notes:
Followed the video walkthrough to get majority of the app complete.
Added persistence to Settings activity to preserve settings selections.
Todo:
- All the Advanced and Bonus items.
- Use proper @+id's for all elements.
- Increase performance by caching view ID's.
Walkthrough of all user stories:
