Google Image search App

Time Spent: 15 hours

Implemented Stories-

Required Stories:

• User can enter a search query that will display a grid of image results from the Google Image API.

• User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results

• 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)

*Subsequent searches will have any filters applied to the search results

*User can tap on any image in results to see the image full-screen

*User can scroll down “infinitely” to continue loading more image results (up to 8 pages)

Advanced Stories:

*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 Stories:

• Bonus: Use the StaggeredGridView to display improve the grid of image result

• Bonus: User can zoom or pan images displayed in full-screen detail view

Review comments from last assignment-

• Used View holder pattern to provide view recycling

Few unsuccessful attempts:

• I tried to add Parcelable interface to the Image model which resulted in console errors and broke my app. Coldn't debug issues with it due to time constraint