ImageProbe (Grid Iamge Search)
Extend the Google Image Search that we built in class to allow a user to modify advanced search options and result pagination.
Total Hours = 10+ hours spent in total
Features
- [x] User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.2.
- [x] User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- [x] User can configure advanced search filters such as:
- Size (small, medium, large, extra-large)
- Color filter (black, blue, brown, gray, green, etc...)
- Type (faces, photo, clip art, line art)
- Site (espn.com)
- [x] Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search resu
- [x] User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
- [x] User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
- [x] Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- [x] Advanced: Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
- [x] Advanced: User can share an image to their friends or email it to
- [x] Advanced: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
- [x] Advanced: Improve the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
- [x] Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display visually interesting image results
- [x] Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
- [x] Additonal Sliding Navigation drawer for the filters
Walk through of all user stories:
![Video Walkthrough](https://github.com/rajab57/ImageProbe/raw/master/assets/ImageProbe.gif)
Libraries and Dependencies
- android-async-http-1.4.4.jar
- android-smart-image-view-3-27-14.jar
- universal-image-loader.19.2-with-sources.jar
- StaggeredGridView project from https://github.com/maurycyw/StaggeredGridView
- Have used TouchImageView.java from https://github.com/MikeOrtiz/TouchImageView
- NavigationDrawer from codepath