Name: android-booksearch-demo
Owner: CodePath
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Created: 2015-02-08 06:30:45.0
Updated: 2018-05-13 18:04:24.0
Pushed: 2017-10-31 03:47:27.0
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Size: 247
Language: Java
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Android app that leverages the OpenLibrary API to search books and display cover images. It also allows you to recommend books to friends. See the Book Search Tutorial on our cliffnotes for a step-by-step tutorial.
The app is composed of two screens. The first screen displays a list of books, in which, each book is described by its title, author and cover photo. After a user selects a book from the list, a second screen appears displaying additional details about the book, including the publisher and no. of pages.
Book List
Book Details
The app does the following:
To achieve this, there are five different components in this app:
BookClient
- Responsible for executing the API requests and retrieving the JSONBook
- Model object responsible for encapsulating the attributes for each individual bookBookAdapter
- Responsible for mapping each Book
to a particular view layoutBookListActivity
- Responsible for fetching and deserializing the data, configuring the adapter and providing a search interfaceBookDetailActivity
- Responsible for providing book detail view and share intent.See the Book Search Tutorial on our cliffnotes for a step-by-step tutorial.
This app leverages two third-party libraries: