Developed an Android application, which allows users to search through the eBay items catalog and look at the detailed information about them.
The App contains 5 screens: Initial Form, Item Catalog, Product Information screen, Seller Information screen and Shipping Information screen.
This app has been designed and implemented in a Pixel 2XL emulator by using SDK API 29 (Android Studio)
Used ebay Developers API, Node.js backend deployed on GCP,
2) Implementation Design
App Icon and Splash Screen
The app begins with a welcome screen (see Figure below) which displays the icon of the application
Initial Search Form
When you open the app, there will be an initial form displayed on the screen as shown in Figure below.
The initial form contains the some filters as follows. The fields are:
• Keyword field – Mandatory
• Price Range – Minimum and Maximum Price fields
• Condition – 3 checkboxes, for New, Used and Unspecified
• Sort By criteria – 4 options, name Best Match, Price: Highest first, Price +
Shipping: Highest first, Price + Shipping: Lowest first
Product Catalog
If the results are available for the search, this page displays them. If no matching result is found, it displays "No resultsfound" instead.
Detailed Product Screen
On clicking on the particular item card,a new Activity call displays the detailed information of the product.
This includes the following tabs on the top - Product Summary Tab, Seller Information Tab, Shipping Information Tab
Third Party Libraries
Volley HTTP requests
• Volley can be helpful with asynchronous http requests to load data. You can also use Volley network ImageView to load photos in Google tab.
• You can learn more about them here:
• https://developer.android.com/training/volley/index.html
