nmatte / WagChallenge

Wag! Challenge

Hi Wag! Team (and GitHub lurkers), thanks for the opportunity to do this challenge!

Overview

• StackOverflow users are represented by the StackOverflowUser class.

• StackOverflowUserFactory provides methods for parsing JSON data from StackOverflow.

• UserViewAdapter is the RecyclerView adapter for StackOverflow users. It fetches the avatars.

Third-party libraries

• Volley: I'm not sure if Volley counts as a third-party library, but I used it in place of HttpsURLConnection because that would require an AsyncTask and the ensuing boilerplate.
• Glide: Same reasoning as Volley; it is cleaner and faster to use than writing my own solution, and better optimized.

Notes

• The emulator has scroll lag, but the app runs smooth as butter on a real device. At first I thought it was an issue with the UserViewAdapter::onBindViewHolder call, but it occurs even when the method is empty, and no network requests are being performed.

Author

Nathan Matteson