Week 2 Project: Grid Image Search
Search for images and generate a grid view.
Time spent: 8 hours total.
Completed user stories:
- [x] Required: User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.
- [x] Required: User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
- [x] Required: 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] Required: Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results
- [x] Required: User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen
- [x] Required: User can scroll down ÒinfinitelyÓ to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)
- [ ] Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- [ ] Advanced: Use the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
- [ ] Advanced: User can share an image to their friends or email it to themselves
- [ ] Advanced: Replace Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
- [ ] Advanced: Improve the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring
- [ ] Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display visually interesting image results
- [ ] Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view
Release Notes:
I'm sorry. This is the lamest Image Search app you will see. I just had enough time to do the bare minimum, and nothing more.
Future apps will be better - I hope...
Implementation Notes:
Followed the video walkthrough to get majority of the app complete.
Added persistence to Settings activity to preserve settings selections.
Todo:
- All the Advanced and Bonus items.
- Use proper @+id's for all elements.
- Increase performance by caching view ID's.
Walkthrough of all user stories:
![Video Walkthrough](https://github.com/spaikmos/ImageSearch/raw/master/ImageSearchDemo.gif)