[Android Bootcamp] Project 2: News Reader - Ready for Review

[maprice]

My app is complete, please review: ./cc @codepathreview @codepath.

Would love you guys to touch on best practices when creating reusable XML layout and widgets in a future class.

[codepathreview]

:+1: nice work. 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
• Glad you thought about error handling for invalid or empty input cases
• Nice job with including progress bar support
• Properly reused the single base method in search activity to fetch results for both initial load and the pagination
• Nice to see you added the search box to the ActionBar!
• Properly used spinners (with populated values) to allow users to select filters
• Properly sent and received relevant filters using a listener 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!

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.