Project 2 - News Article Search

News Article Search is an android app that allows a user to search for images on web using simple filters. The app utilizes New York Times Search API.

Time spent: Many hours spent in total :-)

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can search for news article by specifying a query and launching a search. Search displays a grid of image results from the New York Times Search API.
• User can click on "settings" which allows selection of advanced search options to filter results
• User can configure advanced search filters such as:
  • Begin Date (using a date picker)
  • News desk values (Arts, Fashion & Style, Sports)
  • Sort order (oldest or newest)
• Subsequent searches have any filters applied to the search results
• User can tap on any image in results to see the full text of article full-screen
• User can scroll down to see more articles. The maximum number of articles is limited by the API search.

The following optional features are implemented:

• Used the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
• Improved the user interface and experiment with image assets and/or styling and coloring

The following bonus features are implemented:

• Use the RecyclerView with the StaggeredGridLayoutManager to display improve the grid of image results

The following additional features are implemented:

• Placeholder NYT "T" logo image in grid for articles that have no thumbnails
• User can set End Date in addition to Begin Date
• User's search filters are saved to and loaded from SharedPreferences
• Alert dialog requiring users choosing Select news desk values (as opposed to All values) to also select the departments they want to search

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

As the New York Times is very black and white in all its branding, and in the spirit of the old "What's black and white and red(read) all over?" newspaper riddle, I decided to make the app black and white with red as an accent color.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright 2016 Tané Tachyon

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