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: