Week 2 - NYTimes

NYTimes is an article search application for Android.

Submitted by: Peyt S. Dewar II

Time spent: 18 hours total

Completed user stories:

• [x] Required: Users can enter a search query that will display a grid of news articles using the thumbnail and headline from the New York Times Search API.
• [x] Required: Users can click on settings which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results.
• [x] Required: Users can configure advanced search filters such as begin date, news desk values, and sort order.
• [x] Required: Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results.
• [x] Required: Users can tap on any article in results to view the contents in an embedded browser.
• [x] Required: Users can scroll down infinitely to continue loading more news articles. The maximum number of articles is limited by the API search.
• [x] Optional: Robust error handling is added and network connectivity is checked.
• [x] Optional: ActionBar SearchView is used for searching instead of EditText.
• [x] Optional: Users can share article links with friends or email it to themselves.
• [x] Optional: SettingsActivity is replaced with a lightweight modal overlay.
• [x] Optional: UI is improved through styling and coloring.
• [x] Stretch: RecyclerView is used with the StaggeredGridLayoutManager to improve displaying the grid of image results.
• [x] Stretch: RecyclerView is made heterogenous for different news articles that only have text or have text with thumbnails.
• [x] Stretch: ButterKnife annotation library is applied to reduce view boilerplate.
• [x] Stretch: Parceler is used to make Article objects parcelable instead of serializable.
• [] Stretch: All icon drawables and other static image assets are replaced with vector drawables where appropriate.
• [x] Stretch: Data binding support module is leveraged to bind data into one or more activity layout templates.
• [x] Stretch: Picasso is replaced with Glide for more efficient image rendering.
• [x] Stretch: Retrolambda expressions are used to cleanup event handling blocks.
• [] Stretch: GSON is leveraged to streamline the parsing of JSON data.
• [] Stretch: Android Async HTTP is replaced with Retrofit.

Video Walkthrough

![Video Walkthrough] (weektwoDemo.gif)

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Notes

Spent some time trying to figure out how to get the share button to work.

License

Copyright [2016] [Peyt S. Dewar II]

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