Parstagram is a photo sharing app similar to Instagram but using Parse as its backend.

Time spent: 30 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is completed:

• 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".
• The user should switch between different tabs - viewing all posts (feed view), compose (capture photos form camera) and profile tabs (posts made) using fragments and a Bottom Navigation View. (2 points)
• User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram".

The following optional features are implemented:

• User sees app icon in home screen and styled bottom navigation view
• Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
• After the user submits a new post, show an indeterminate progress bar while the post is being uploaded to Parse.
• User sees app icon in home screen and styled bottom navigation view
• Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
• User can load more posts once he or she reaches the bottom of the feed using infinite scrolling.
• Show the username and creation time for each post.
• User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption.
• 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 and shows a grid view of the user's posts
• 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.

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

For part 1,

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For part 2,

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For part 1, My app crashed for not having a common theme. Then I had difficulty adding the id’s in the mainactivity file and also it’s layout file. My app could not save the posts because of some db error. I was able to fix all the issues and make a smooth app.

For part 2, I could not see my posts on homepage due to locking the features in back4app. I had difficulty designing the xml files for PostsFragment because the 'logout' button was going out of screen due to the button navigation below. I also had to create a new user in the back4app to make my project work because due to some issues my first user id was making my app crash.

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

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