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:
- Style the login page to look like the real Instagram login page.
- Style the feed to look like the real Instagram feed.
- User can use a tab bar to switch between all "Instagram" posts and posts published only by the user. AKA, tabs - [ ] for Home Feed and Profile
- Add a custom camera using the CameraManager library.
- 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 Hint: If you use TableView Section Headers to display the the username and creation time, you'll get "sticky headers" - [ ] similar to the actual Instagram app.
- After the user submits a new post, show a progress HUD while the post is being uploaded to Parse
- 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
- 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.
- Run your app on your phone and use the camera to take the photo
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
- In detailed view, user can scroll to see full caption if caption is too long to fit on the screen
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):
- How to go about properly implementing like button that features usernames and leads to their profiles
- How to implement following other users
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- AFNetworking - networking task library
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
I experienced a challenge when creating the detail veiw for my photos on my app. I was originally trying to pass the individual components of the PFObject (image, caption, etc.) to the photo's detailed view controller before realizing it was better to pass the entire PFObject and then work with its components in the detailed view controller.
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