Hour 16 Developing a Complete App – Flickr Photos

1) Determining app functionality

2) Planning the app

3) Developing the app

4) Creating a custom adapter

5) Loading images in a list

1) An Inventory of the proposed functionality for the Flickr Photos App

· Display recent photo from Flickr

· Pick some photos as favorites

· View favorite photos

· Delete non-favorites

Creating a Wireframe for the App

· Figure 16.1 App List view and menu

· Figure 16.2 App grid and detail view

2) Planning the App: Taking Inventory

Need to create the following:

· Action Bar with two tabs and an overflow menu

· Overflow menu on action bar with three choices

· Activity, for swapping in fragments

· List fragment to show photos and titles

· Grid fragment to show photos in a grid

· Detail fragment to show a single photo

3) Developing the App

· Using a Custom CursorAdapter

o Cursor class

o CursorLoader class

· Implementing BindView for ListCursorAdapter

· Creating the Photo and Favorite Photo Fragments

· Show Data in a List or Grid

· Displaying the Selected Images

· Handling Favorites

Final App Inventory

· 1 activity: MainActivity

· 3 fragments: PhotoGridFragment, PhotoListFragment, and ImageFragment

· 2 adapters: GridAdapter and ListAdapter to work with their respective fragments

· 2 layouts for items: list_item.xml and grid_item.xml

· 1 AsyncTask to load images: BitmapLOadTask

· 1 data object: FlickrPhoto

· 1 database adapter: FlickPhotoDbAdapter

· 1 content provider: FlickPhotoProvider

· 1 menu resource

· 2 layouts for fragments

· 1 layout for the activity