mimlrd / socialeo

Demo application as part of the interview process for ENABLON

Project Title

SOCIALEO - A test app for the mobile team at ENABLON https://enablon.com/

Assignment

Create a mobile app with one view showing the list of the most recent photos posted on Instagram with the account below, following these guidelines:

• list must show the photos posted by the account provided below
• some photo metadata (title, comments, dates, number of likes…) should be displayed
• list must be built to show any number of photos

Getting Started

This is a test app for the mobile team at ENABLON France. To get started you will need to have a valid Account access token to connect to Instagram API and minimum iOS 11.4 installed and Xcode 9.0.

Others adding more features to the app

Adding liking / unliking functionality

To add the the like function, you will first need to create a developer account with Instagram, then register your app, please visit Instagram developer for more information and for the documentation.

Once you have setup your application and allow user a way to authenticate themselves, you can start creating you like functionality.

The like functionality could be done as follow:

• have a like button on your custom cell

• a variable to keep tract of the post id

• a variable to keep tract of your like status for the post, such as as bool

• a functiontion to triger according to the bool variable status, for isntance if the user already have liked the post, the button should trigger the unlike functionality

• once the user has triggered and action (like /unlike), the info will be sent to instagram database with the following info:

  • userid
  • postid
  • timestamp of the action
  • check if the user is still log in

• instagram will add/remove the postid to the user likes and update the likes count accordingly

• an observer in the app will then trigger a new fetch in the background to reflect the correct info available

• the app will then reload the list to show the up-to-date info to the user

The comment functionality could be done as follow (see the test app, as the basic functionality is already done):

• make a comment view controller with a list collectioncontroller (tableview or collectionview)

  • add an inputview (textview)
  • link everything to the commenVC
  • a convenient variable to get the postid
  • a convenient variable to get the userid
  • check if the user is still log in - to avoid no userid available

• once the user has press the send button, check if the textfield is not empty (if it is do nothing)

• if textview not empty, userid and postid aren't nil -> create a post object with required info and POST the infoto Instagram server with a callback to update the UI accordingly. For isntance once the post has been sent with success, clear the textview

• an observer in the app will then trigger a new fetch in the background to reflect the correct info available

• the app will then reload the list to show the up-to-date info to the user

Added bonus to the assignement

I decide to add some features that could directly benefit ENABLON apps.