Project 1 - Instagram Client

Name of your app is an android app that allows a user to check out popular photos from Instagram. The app utilizes Instagram API to display images and basic image information to the user.

Time spent: 20 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• [x] User can scroll through current popular photos from Instagram
• [x] For each photo displayed, user can see the following details:
  • [x] Graphic, Caption, Username
  • [x] Relative timestamp, like count, user profile image

The following optional features are implemented:

• [x] User can pull-to-refresh popular stream to get the latest popular photos
• [x] Show latest comments for each photo
• [x] Display each photo with the same style and proportions as the real Instagram
• [x] Display each user profile image using a RoundedImageViewDisplay each user profile image using a RoundedImageView
• [x] Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading
• [x] Improved the user interface through styling and coloring

The following bonus features are implemented:

• [x] Show last 2 comments for each photo
• [x] Allow user to view all comments for an image within a separate activity or dialog fragment
• [x] Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the VideoView

The following additional features are implemented:

• [x] Animate the latest comments

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android