amwhite48 / parstagram

Instagram clone implemented using a Parse database

Project 4 - Parstagram

Parstagram is an instagram clone photo sharing app using Parse as its backend.

Time spent: 25 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• User sees app icon in home screen.
• User can sign up to create a new account using Parse authentication
• User can log in and log out of his or her account
• The current signed in user is persisted across app restarts
• User can take a photo, add a caption, and post it to "Instagram"
• User can view the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
• User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
• User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption.

The following stretch features are implemented:

• Style the login page to look like the real Instagram login page.
• Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
• User should switch between different tabs - viewing all posts (feed view), capture (camera and photo gallery view) and profile tabs (posts made) using fragments and a Bottom Navigation View.
• User can load more posts once he or she reaches the bottom of the feed using endless scrolling.
• Show the username and creation time for each post
• After the user submits a new post, show an indeterminate progress bar while the post is being uploaded to Parse
• User Profiles:
  • Allow the logged in user to add a profile photo
  • Display the profile photo with each post
  • Tapping on a post's username or profile photo goes to that user's profile page
  • User Profile shows posts in a grid view
• User can comment on a post and see all comments for each post in the post details screen.
• User can like a post and see number of likes for each post in the post details screen.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Credits

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• Android Async Http Client - networking library

Notes

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License

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parstagram's Issues

Project Feedback!

It looks like your video walkthrough doesn't seem to show some of the required stories as follows:

• User can sign up to create a new account using Parse authentication
• The current signed in user is persisted across app restarts

Can you try to update and resubmit?