Instagram is a photo sharing app using Parse as its backend.
Time spent: 20 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"
- User can pull to refresh the last 20 posts submitted to "Instagram"
- User can tap a post to view post details, including timestamp and caption
The following optional features are implemented:
- Run your app on your phone and use the camera to take the photo
- 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 use a Tab Bar to switch between a Home Feed tab (all posts) and a Profile tab (only posts published by the current user)
- 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
- After the user submits a new post, show a progress HUD while the post is being uploaded to Parse
- 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
- Style the login page to look like the real Instagram login page
- Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed
- Implement a custom camera view
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):
- I would've liked to improve the UI for this project significantly.
- Differences between parse and API implementations
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories: Demo 1: https://imgur.com/a/E2c3cr1 Demo 2: https://imgur.com/a/OVtqzpa Demo 3: https://imgur.com/a/G3GJZt5
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List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- AFNetworking - networking task library
- [Back4App]
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
I struggled to upload the chosen image in the profile view controller to parse and to retrive it back for ussage. However, after investigating back4app I understood the logic and was able to implement it. Still, I think I could build it more efficiently. I also though the image picking methods for posts in general were super interesting.
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