The DoggyDays app was a project completed as an assignment from my participation in the Android Developer Cohort of the Google Fellowship Program. The goals was to build an app that displays an image of a dog using the API https://dog.ceo/dog-api/documentation/.
The completed app needed to do the following: Display a dog image (a jpg image is returned from calling the endpoint https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random) Have a button that lets the user generate a new image
The main endpoint utilized for this app is: https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random
The API response from that endpoint looks like the following: { "message": "https://images.dog.ceo/breeds/briard/n02105251_7738.jpg", "status": "success" }
You can read more about the specific endpoint here: https://dog.ceo/dog-api/documentation/random
Topics learned during the development of this app include:
- Understanding how to make web API requests using network calls
- Understanding how to parse API responses
- Understanding how to load images from a network location and display them
Below is a visual of the final product
