cloneInstagram is an android app that allows a user to check out popular photos from Instagram.

Time spent: 09 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is completed:

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

The following optional features are implemented:

• Advanced: Add pull-to-refresh for popular stream with SwipeRefreshLayout

• Advanced: Show latest comments for each photo

• Advanced: Display each user profile image using a RoundedImageView

• Advanced: Display a nice default placeholder graphic for each image during loading (read more about Picasso)

• Advanced: Improve the user interface through styling and coloring

• Bonus: Allow user to view all comments for an image within a separate activity or dialog fragment

• Bonus: Allow video posts to be played in full-screen using the VideoView

• Bonus: Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate

The following additional features are implemented:

• Use GSON to create the models from the JSON response instead of manually parsing the JSON
• Display each user profile image using a RoundedImageViewDisplay each user profile image using a CircleImageView

The following ADVANCED features will be implemented:

• User can login/register/logout an Instagram account.

• User can pick picture from Android gallery as well as taking a photo by camera.

• Using RecycleView to display all uploaded photos.

• When user taps on a photo in the photo list screen, open up a photo viewer screen. This photo viewer screen should enlarge the photo and support gesture zooming.

• Test

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with Recordit.

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
• Butterknife - reduce view boilerplate
• GSON - Java serialization library for converting Java objects to JSON
• CircleImageView - circular image view

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

• Genymotion can not create an emulator on my laptop, so i always use my Nexus as the test device. Somehow Android Studio couldn't connect with my phone last night.
• Using butterknife in the first time.

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