Project which comes under Udacity Android Basics Nanodegree Program
The goal is to design and create the structure of a Book Listing app which would allow a user to get a list of published books on a given topic. You will be using the google books api in order to fetch results and display them to the user.
I learned about the web and about how to get data from an api. I also learned how to parse that data and display it to a user. This project gives me the ability to practice those skills, which will be key in developing any app which makes use of a backend server, real time data, or interactions over the internet.
This project is about combining various ideas and skills we’ve been practicing throughout the course. They include:
- Fetching data from an API
- Using an AsyncTask
- Parsing a JSON response
- Creating a list based on that data and displaying it to the user.
To achieve this, I'll make use of the Google Books API. This is a well-maintained API which returns information in a JSON format. An example query that we found useful was :
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=android&maxResults=1
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You can download the apk here BookListingApp