Popular Photos (Instagram Client)

• Android Codepath
• Assignment 1
• Due Sunday, February 7, 2016

This application retrieves popular photos from Instagram and displays them to the user in a similar interface as the real Instagram app.

Time spent: 10 hours

Completed user stories:

• (required): Graphic, Caption, Username for each photo (2 points)
• Relative timestamp, like count, user profile image for each photo (3 points)
• Add pull-to-refresh for popular stream with SwipeRefreshLayout (1 point)
• Show latest comment for each photo (bonus: show last 2 comments) (1 point + 1 bonus)
• Display each user profile image using a RoundedImageView (2 points)
• Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading (read more about Picasso) (1 point)
• Improve the user interface through styling and coloring (1 to 5 points)
• Allow user to view all comments for an image within a separate activity or dialog fragment (3 points)
• Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate. (1 point)

Walkthrough of all user stories:

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