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Build a New York Times News Search article app which allows a user to find old articles.

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Project 2 - New York Times Article Search

New York Times 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: 16 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:

Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
Used the ActionBar SearchView or custom layout as the query box instead of an EditText
User can share an article link to their friends or email it to themselves
Replaced Filter Settings Activity with a lightweight modal overlay
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
For different news articles that only have text or only have images, use Heterogenous Layouts with RecyclerView
Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
Leverage the popular GSON library to streamline the parsing of JSON data.
Replace Picasso with Glide for more efficient image rendering.

The following additional features are implemented:

List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

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] [lasthulk]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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