kelvinluime / Feed

A photo browsing app.

Lab 1 - Feed

Feed is a photo browsing app using the The Tumblr API.

Time spent: 4 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required user stories are complete:

• User can scroll through a feed of images returned from the Tumblr API (5pts)

The following stretch user stories are implemented:

• User sees an alert when there's a networking error (+1pt)
• While poster is being fetched, user see's a placeholder image (+1pt)
• User sees image transition for images coming from network, not when it is loaded from cache (+1pt)
• Customize the selection effect of the cell (+1pt)

The following additional user stories are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality! (+1-3pts)

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):

1. Why are the cells shrinked down in the app?
2. How to fetch other pictures when pull to refresh?

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app. The biggest challenge is to understand how to get data from JSON files.

License

Copyright 2018 Kin Man Lui

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Lab 2 - Feed

Feed is a photo browsing app app using the The Tumblr API.

Time spent: 3 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required user stories are complete:

• User can tab an image to view a larger image in a detail view (5pts)

The following stretch user stories are implemented:

• Add Avatar and Publish Dates (+2pt)
• Zoomable Photo View (+2pt)
• Infinite Scrolling (+2pt)

The following additional user stories are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality! (+1-3pts)

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):

1. I would like to add a "like" button
2. How does the built-in "Stick" header work?

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app. One of the biggest challenge is to properly scale the photo such that they can keep in their best shape.

License

Copyright [2018] [Kin Man Lui]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.