Project 1 - WF Instagram

WF Instagram 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: 16 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 - 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
• [x] Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the VideoView
• [ ] Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce boilerplate code.

The following additional features are implemented:

• [ ] List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

links: http://i.imgur.com/Tsvo7ox.gifv youtube: https://youtu.be/O56vL7HcwdU

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• [Glide] (https://github.com/bumptech/glide) - Glide is a fast and efficient open source media management and image loading framework for Android that wraps media decoding, memory and disk caching, and resource pooling into a simple and easy to use interface.

License

Copyright [2016] [Pham Ngoc Quang Sang]

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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