captaindmitro / photogallery

This is just a tutorial project standing for fetching and displaying photos from Flickr

PhotoGallery

This is just a tutorial project standing for fetching and displaying photos from Flickr.

application.mov

What used:

• RecyclerView along with Fragments are used for display numerous (potentially) images utilizing minimal possible memory usage;
• Retrofit, OkHttp and Gson libraries for image fetching;
• To segregate data dependency from activity lifecycle ViewModel and LiveData were applied;
• WebView to create an embedded looking browser instance.

Features

• Images can be discovered with search bar at the top of the app:
  search.mov
• Search query can be cleared and Flickr's 'interesting' photos will be shown:
  clear_history.mov
• Tap on photo to open full size version on Flickr site;
  webview.mov
• Latest search query is saved and restored on app restart:
  restart.mov
• If new photos related to saved search query are found a notification pops out (can be toggled by "Start/stop polling" in options menu):
  notification.mov