Instagram is a photo sharing app using Parse as its backend.
Time spent: 21 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User sees app icon in home screen.
- User can sign up to create a new account using Parse authentication
- User can log in to his or her account
- The current signed in user is persisted across app restarts
- User can log out of his or her account
- User can take a photo, add a caption, and post it to "Instagram"
- User can view the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
- User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
- User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption.
The following stretch features are implemented:
- Style the login page to look like the real Instagram login page.
- Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
- User can load more posts once he or she reaches the bottom of the feed using endless scrolling.
- User should switch between different tabs using fragments and a Bottom Navigation View.
- Feed Tab (to view all posts from all users)
- Capture Tab (to make a new post using the Camera and Photo Gallery)
- Profile Tab (to view only the current user's posts, in a grid)
- Show the username and creation time for each post
- User Profiles:
- Allow the logged in user to add a profile photo
- Display the profile photo with each post
- Tapping on a post's username or profile photo goes to that user's profile page
- User Profile shows posts in a grid
- After the user submits a new post, show an indeterminate progress bar while the post is being uploaded to Parse
- User can comment on a post and see all comments for each post in the post details screen.
- User can like a post and see number of likes for each post in the post details screen.
The following additional features are implemented:
- User can comment on a post and see the number of comments for each post in the home feed
- User can like a post and see the number of likes for each post in the home feed
- User can add and edit their name and bio
- User can see the "Likes" of each post (a list of user who liked it) by clicking the number of likes from both the home feed and the post details screen
- User can click a user in the "Likes" list to view their profile
- Signup screen has a confirm password feature which forces user to type the same password twice
Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):
- How to implement tagging other users in photos
- How to implement adding location to posts
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- Android Async Http Client - networking library
I was unfamiliar with using fragments, specifically, passing data from an adapter to a fragment, or passing data from an activity to a fragment, or vice versa. I read through the documentation on Android fragments to understand them better. After completing this assignment, I feel much more comfortable using them.
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