[Android Bootcamp] Project 2 New York Times Search Ready

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Decent submission, consider adding optional stories. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Properly reused the single base method in search activity to fetch results for both initial load and the pagination
• Properly used spinners & check-boxes (with populated values) to allow users to select appropriate values.
• Nice to see you added the search box to the ActionBar!
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out
• Consider adding a check for network availability before making a request.
• Good to see you used a filters object to represent the filters to apply to the query
• Consider adding the ability to share a news article. This is an important learning for this assignment even though it's optional.
• Consider trying out the RecyclerView, the successor to the ListView and GridView.
• Try out the third-party ButterKnife library to simplify a lot of boilerplate findViewById() calls.

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.