Google image search

[kgarg3]

My app is a complete, please review. /cc @nesquena @timothy1ee

Questions:

1. Why does the search view not show the search text box initially. It only comes up when you click on the search icon.

Note: Didnt have time to implement the optional feature.

[nesquena]

Why does the search view not show the search text box initially. It only comes up when you click on the search icon.

You might want to add this svQuery.setIconifiedByDefault(false); if you anted the textbox to always be there. Try it and let me know if that works!

[nesquena]

:+1: nice work. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Properly reused the single method to fetch results for both initial load and the pagination
• Properly used spinners (with populated values) to allow users to select filters
• Properly send and receive 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
• Consider adding the ability to share an image. This is an important learning for this assignment even though it's optional.

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.

[kgarg3]

cc @nesquena

• Tried svQuery.setIconifiedByDefault(false); That does display the search box, but then the settings icon disappears. Also, when I click on the 'cancel' or 'X' buttong in the search view, i cant seem to get back to the original action bar with the settings icon. The action bar basically just contains the search view.

[kgarg3]

Feedback:

1. Its probably a stretch, but one could incorporate the SwipeView in this project. Usually what happens when one clicks on an image to view the details is that the Details activity launches and from here the users can swipe through the app to get to the full images of the other thumbnails. Eg: photo album. I was thinking of implementing the SwipeView, but then ran out of time.
2. Also, the search view, with your example, was really simple to implement. So you could add that as a task, which is simpler than an edit text + button, unless you specifically wanted us to implement that for a reason. The search dialog is used in a lot of apps, so it would be a good learning exercise.

[nesquena]

Its probably a stretch, but one could incorporate the SwipeView in this project. Usually what happens when one clicks on an image to view the details is that the Details activity launches and from here the users can swipe through the app to get to the full images of the other thumbnails.

Cool idea, I think this would be a really nice optional task I might add for the next class.

Also, the search view, with your example, was really simple to implement. So you could add that as a task, which is simpler than an edit text + button, unless you specifically wanted us to implement that for a reason. The search dialog is used in a lot of apps, so it would be a good learning exercise.

I like the edit text + button just to reinforce relative layout but I agree with you this is a great optional task to switch it for a SearchView. I will add that to the next version of this assignment. Thanks!