Project #2 Submission

[dlmccoy]

Required functionality is complete. I'm still working on the switch to RecyclerView, will try to get that in by 10pm. @codepathreview

[codepathreview]

Decent submission. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Good layout, proper view naming, usage of sp/dp, margin and relative placement rules
• Good use of string resources for text values
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out
• Consider including a check to see if internet is available to detect any network failures. Show an approrpiate message in case of failure.
• Properly reused the single base method in search activity to fetch results for both initial load and the pagination
• Consider moving the search field into the ActionBar using a custom ActionBar layout or with a SearchView
• 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
• Good to see you used a filters object to represent the filters to apply to the query
• Nice job adding the share intent to the article detail view!
• 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.