tnaughts / goodreads

google books API application

React Native Mobile application utilizing google books API to search books. Built for iOS. Utilizes react-navigation for navigating screens.

Current Functionality:

• An unauthorized user can search for a book using the google books api
• List can grab up to ten books, after that a user most scroll to the bottom 10% of the list(last book) and we will query for an additional 10 books
• loading and typing states are handled
• User can clear input box
• small/basic animation for rendering list

Todo/possible improvements:

• Favoriting
  • Optimal: Adding in authentication
    • would allow user to grab their own favorited books and also favorite books
  • add in redux
    • would allow a user to favorite a book (save that book in the store)
    • Could access later (most likely out of sync from google books so would require a refresh)
• refine loading and error/no results messaging

Setup:

• create a .env file that includes the GOOGLE_BOOKS variable for the google API key
• npm install && pods install
• run 'goodReads.xcworkspace' in xcode