Project 3 - The Gram

The Gram is a photo sharing app similar to Instagram but using Parse as its backend.

Time spent: 8 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

User can view the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram".
The user should switch between different tabs - viewing all posts (feed view), compose (capture photos form camera) and profile tabs (posts made) using fragments and a Bottom Navigation View. (2 points)
User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram".

The following optional features are implemented:

User sees app icon in home screen and styled bottom navigation view
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 infinite scrolling.
Show the username and creation time for each post.
User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption.
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 and shows a grid view of the user's posts
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.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Notes

I had some trouble including the Parse library in the application. This turned out to be because I was adding the required repository to the wrong build.gradle file.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright 2021 John Royal

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