Week 2 - Image Search
This is an andorid application for displaying images from Google Image Searcher API based on user’s search query.
Time Spent: ~15 Hours
Completed User Stories
[x] User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
[x] User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
[x] User can configure advanced search filters such as:
[x] Size (small, medium, large, extra-large)
[x] Color filter (black, blue, brown, gray, green, etc...)
[x] Type (faces, photo, clip art, line art)
[x] Site (espn.com)
[x] Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failure)
[x] Advanced: Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
[x] Advanced: User can share an image to their friends or email it to themselves
[x] Advanced: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
[x] Advanced: Improve the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
[x] Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display improve the grid of image results
[x] Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
[x] Extra: Improved the performance of the ListView using ViewHolder pattern
[x] Extra: Implemented Parcelable interface
[x] Extra: Progress Bar shows up when loading Full Screen Image
[x] Extra: Enabled Soft Keyboard to close after the input is entered
User Story Walkthrough
Acknowledgements
- Android Asynchronous Http Client: An asynchronous callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache’s HttpClient libraries.
- Picasso: A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android.
- StaggeredGrid: A grid view which supports multiple columns with rows of varying sizes
- PhotoView: An easily usable implementation of a zooming Android ImageView.