SimpleInstagram is a photo sharing app using Parse as its backend.
Time spent: 25 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 and log out of his or her account
- The current signed in user is persisted across app restarts
- 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 should switch between different tabs - viewing all posts (feed view), capture (camera and photo gallery view) and profile tabs (posts made) using a Bottom Navigation View.
- User can load more posts once he or she reaches the bottom of the feed using infinite scrolling.
- Show the username and creation time for each post
- After the user submits a new post, show an indeterminate progress bar while the post is being uploaded to Parse
- 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 can like a post and see number of likes for each post in the post details screen.
- Run your app on your phone and use the camera to take the photo
The following additional features are implemented:
- Visible/invisible password with eye
- User can choose a photo from their gallery/camera roll for posting to their timeline
- User can choose a photo from their gallery/camera roll for changing their profile photo (as well as camera but that is the standard)
- User's profile activity was made flexible to different users - not just current user.
- Profile image is visible in details activity and in each place visible (timeline, details, and profile), it is in a circle shape.
- Any user can have a biography on their profile page
- Each user has a profile that you can scroll through all of their posts.
- Refresh on each user profile
- Infinite scrolling for user profile
- Each photo in the user profile has a clickable detail view
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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- Android Async Http Client - networking library
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