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7 years ago :+1: Nice work, [NAME]. One of the most important parts of these projects is that you add additional features and tweak the UI / UX because that will provide many more learning opportunities. I encourage you to complete the projects each week with required stories early and then spend time adding your own UI elements and experimenting with optional extensions that will improve the user experience. We have provided a detailed Flicks Feedback Guide here which covers the most common points we see for this project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine other ways you could improve your submission. You should consider going back and implementing applicable feedback as well. Keep in mind that one of the most important parts of Android development is learning the correct patterns and conventions. Hopefully this project has given you a better sense of working with RelativeLayout which is a very flexible layout system, probably one of the most powerful responsive-first layout systems available across web and mobile platforms, and RecyclerView, which is a superior stand-in for the ListView we used in the Todo project. This assignment also gave us our first introduction to networking, working with APIs and loading remote images. The next assignment will introduce new concept such as accepting user input and navigating between activities but will also reinforce important concepts such as networking, using APIs, and handling remote images. If you have any particular questions about the assignment, feel free to reply here or or email us haitisupport@codepath.com
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Looks good! Glad to see you completed your first app in the class! The todo app lets you get an initial feel of what it's like to build an Android app. We wanted to give you some experience working with Layouts, Lists, Adapters, and Intents before we cover them in depth during the first week. We encourage you to do your best to tackle some optionals on each upcoming assignment. This course is project-based and the optional extensions on each project are often the most valuable learnings since they dive deeper into common Android use cases. We hope you found this assignment useful and are really excited to see what you build throughout the program. If you have any particular questions about the assignment, feel free to reply here or email us haitisupport@codepath.com.