Google Image search App
Time Spent: 15 hours
Implemented Stories-
Required Stories:
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User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
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User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
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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)
Advanced Stories:
*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 Stories:
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Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display improve the grid of image result
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Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
Review comments from last assignment-
- Used View holder pattern to provide view recycling
Few unsuccessful attempts:
- I tried to add Parcelable interface to the Image model which resulted in console errors and broke my app. Coldn't debug issues with it due to time constraint