Project 1 - Instagram Clone

Instagram Clone is an android app that allows a user to check out popular photos from Instagram. The app utilizes Instagram API to display images and basic image information to the user.

Time spent: 18 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• [x] User can scroll through current popular photos from Instagram
• [x] For each photo displayed, user can see the following details:
  • [x] Graphic, Caption, Username
  • [x] Relative timestamp, likes count, user's profile image

The following optional features are implemented:

• [x] User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest popular photos
• [x] User can see latest comments for each photo (bonus - [x] Show last 2 comments for each photo)
• [x] User can see all the profile images in circles (Hint, use RoundedImageView)
• [x] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
• [x] Improved the user interface through styling and coloring

The following bonus features are implemented:

• [x] Allow user to view all comments for an image within a separate activity or dialog fragment
• [ ] Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the VideoView
• [x] Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code. (Did integrate but not fully use it)

The following additional features are implemented:

• [x] Implement Recycler View
• [x] Hide/Show Toolbar when Recycler is scroll down/up
• [x] Show progress bar inside the image during loading
• [x] Tapping on the 3-line caption will show the full caption

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright 2016 Minh-Khang Vu

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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