Exercise_7_1_TakeAction.md

Objectives:

• Learn how to add more UI components to your app: Menu, Toolbar, Dialog...

Requirements:

• Implements a post detail page (the activity should be named PostDetailActivity) to display a Reddit post instead of using webview.
• Modify the previous app at Exercise 6.1
  • Include selftext inside RedditPost model to get the post's content.
  • Fix parser to parse selftext_html from the API response.
• The UI should look like below:

• How to display post content:
  • If post contains selftext_html then display the content of selftext_html.
  • Else display the content of the post's url.
  • While the post's content is loading, should show a progress dialog like below:
• The post's title is displayed as title of the action bar.
• The post's author is displayed as subtitle of the action bar.
• Tapping on the back arrow should close the activity.
• Tapping on share icon should open a list of apps that can provide share function for the post's url.

References

• How to use actionbar: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
• Themes and styles:
  • http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html
  • https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Styles-and-Themes
• How to style an action bar: https://guides.codepath.com/android/Extended-ActionBar-Guide

Bonus:

• Can you use Toolbar to act as ActionBar? http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidActionBar/article.html