Book Query (Or what should I read next?)

A book query application that will fetch data from the Google book web api.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

This project relies on 2 libraries; the Glide Api and the Apache commons collections. Inside build.gradle:

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.7.1'
    // Glide v4 uses this new annotation processor -- see https://bumptech.github.io/glide/doc/generatedapi.html
    annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.7.1'
    
    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-collections4
    implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-collections4:4.1'

}

Installing

Just clone the github repository to your working directory

git clone https://github.com/voiceinthedark/book-query-google-api.git

Special notes

In order to provide an API key to the google book api; I've included a public constructor to the class QueryBuilder that accepts a string key

public QueryBuilder(Context context, String apiKey){
        mContext = context;
        mApiKey = apiKey;
    }

Just initialize it with the key

QueryBuilder queryBuilder = new QueryBuilder(getContext(), "<My Api Key>");
String query = queryBuilder.encodeUrl(userQuery);

Screens Demo

Recently viewed books

Query list screen

Book details screen

Built With

• Glide - The image loading Framework
• Maven - Dependency Management
• Apache commons collections - Used to apply a fixed size queueing system
• Icons8 - Used the App icon launcher

Versioning

We use Git 2.17.1 for versioning.

Authors

• Firas Abbas - VoiceInTheDark

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Udacity - For their android development courses