Project 4 - Powell-Parstagram

Powell-Parstagram is a photo sharing app using Parse as its backend.

Time spent: 35 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• [X] User sees app icon in home screen.
• [X] User can sign up to create a new account using Parse authentication
• [X] User can log in and log out of his or her account
• [X] The current signed in user is persisted across app restarts
• [X] User can take a photo, add a caption, and post it to "Instagram"
• [X] User can view the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
• [X] User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
• [X] User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption.

The following stretch features are implemented:

• [X] Style the login page to look like the real Instagram login page.
• [X] Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
• [X] User should switch between different tabs - viewing all posts (feed view), capture (camera and photo gallery view) and profile tabs (posts made) using fragments and a Bottom Navigation View.
• [X] User can load more posts once he or she reaches the bottom of the feed using endless scrolling.
• [ ] Show the username and creation time for each post
• [X] After the user submits a new post, show an indeterminate progress bar while the post is being uploaded to Parse
• User Profiles:
  • [X] Allow the logged in user to add a profile photo
  • [X] Display the profile photo with each post
  • [X] Tapping on a post's username or profile photo goes to that user's profile page
  • [X] User Profile shows posts in a grid view
• [X] User can comment on a post and see all comments for each post in the post details screen.
• [X] User can like a post and see number of likes for each post in the post details screen.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video with clearer login persistence across app restarts:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.

• Android Async Http Client - networking library

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app:

- Most of the programming went well during this app creation, but on the final day,
    the ceiling at my entryway caved, so I had to spend most of my last day cleaning
    and moving into a friend's home. Luckily, I had spent extra time after hours and
    got ahead of the MVP goals by the middle of the week, so I was not missing much
    and was able to finish most of the stretch goals by the original deadline
- Getting the relative date timestamp to work was a pain and cost me a few hours of
    Googling and troubleshooting but didn't get it to work. I decided to move on to 
    another stretch goal
- Spent a lot of time cleaning up code, and what I thought was harmless cleaning
    actually broke my code at one point, so that was a minor challenge I had to deal
    with.

License

Copyright 2020 Nicholas Powell

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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