Project 1 - Popular Photos

Popular Photos 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: 6 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

[ ] User can scroll through current popular photos from Instagram
[ ] For each photo displayed, user can see the following details:
- [ ] Graphic, Caption, Username
- [ ] like count, user profile image

The following optional features are implemented:

[ ] User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest popular photos
[ ] Display each photo with the same style and proportions as the real Instagram
[ ] Display each user profile image using a RoundedImageViewDisplay each user profile image using a RoundedImageView
[ ] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
[ ] Improved the user interface through styling and coloring

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Notes

The scrolling was very jerky and would cause the captions and user profile image to move when a new image is loaded. This was looking very bad. I tried to get arround this issue by setting the height and width of the imageview before I load an image in the the adapter.

Open-source libraries used

Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
[RoundedImageView] (https://github.com/vinc3m1/RoundedImageView) - Library to display a rounded image view

License

Copyright [2015] [Parth Mehta]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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