Udacity Grow with Google Android Developer Nanodegree Program
The task was to create an Android Baking application that will allow Udacity's resident baker-in-chief, Miriam, to share her recipes with the world. This application provides users with a step by step baking recipe guide. It lets users seamlessly navigate between steps and stream videos from the URLs given in the stated JSON. As well there is a home screen widget that renders a list of ingredients for the last viewed recipe with no need to reopen the application. The application has separate responsive UI layouts for phones and tablets. Sample mocks provided by Udacity can be found here.
Just clone this repository or download as an archive and import in Android Studio.
This application (optionally) uses Unsplash API to retrieve random covers for recipe cards. You can provide Your API key to see those images, just replace <Your_Unsplash_API_key> in:
/gradle.properties
- App is written solely in the Java Programming Language
- App utilizes stable release versions of all libraries, Gradle, and Android Studio
- App should display recipes from provided network resource
- App should allow navigation between individual recipes and recipe steps
- App uses RecyclerView and can handle recipe steps that include videos or images
- App conforms to common standards found in the Android Nanodegree General Project Guidelines
- Application uses Master Detail Flow to display recipe steps and navigation between them
- Application uses Exoplayer to display videos
- Application properly initializes and releases video assets when appropriate
- Application should properly retrieve media assets from the provided network links. It should properly handle network requests
- Application makes use of Espresso to test aspects of the UI
- Application sensibly utilizes a third-party library to enhance the App's features. That could be helper library to interface with Content Providers if you choose to store the recipes, a UI binding library to avoid writing findViewById a bunch of times, or something similar
- Application has a companion homescreen widget
- Widget displays ingredient list for desired recipe
- Using Exoplayer to play media files
- Adding a widget to an app experience
- Leveraging third-party libraries in an app
- Using Fragments to create a responsive design that works on phones and tablets
- AndroidX previously known as 'Android support Library'
- ConstraintLayout allows to create large and complex layouts
- RecyclerView is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView
- CardView
- DataBinding allows to bind UI components in layouts to data sources in app
- Retrofit 2 type-safe HTTP client by Square, Inc.
- Gson helps with serialization/deserialization of Java Objects into JSON and back
- Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading
- ExoPlayer an extensible media player for Android
- Espresso a testing framework that makes it easy to write reliable user interface tests
- AndroidUnsplash an interface to get images from Unsplash
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