[Android Bootcamp] Project 2: Grid Image Search

[calvinlsliang]

App completed.

Tag: basic

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[codepathreview]

Nice work finishing all required stories, consider adding more optionals next time as those are the tougher ones where you get to learn much more. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Properly used spinners (with populated values) to allow users to select filters
• Properly sent and received relevant filters using a bundle to pass data between activities
• Properly reused the single base method in search activity to fetch results for both initial load and the pagination
• Consider using the ViewHolder pattern to improve performance of photos ListView.
• Nice to see you added the search box to the ActionBar!
• Consider adding ShareIntent for sharing images.
• Correctly used Parcelable instead of Serializable (benefits)
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out

Also, here's a more detailed Project 2 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this assignment. The next assignment (Twitter Client) will be especially important since it introduces the majority of the remaining pieces necessary to build a fully functional API client with complex feeds of data and user creation.