An Android App that uses GoodReads API to retrieve details / data on books and their respective authors. This application is part of the Android Course Content.
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A very simple app to exemplify how to get data from the GoodReads API using http calls on the server side. It doesn't make use of the database. Once the data is received, it is "forwarded" to the client to be displayed. One can display more data if desired.
- Android SDK
- Latest Android Build Tools
- Android Support Repository
The App does the following:
- Fetch the books from the GoodReads API in JSON format
- Deserialize the JSON data for each of the books into
Bookobjects - Build an array of
Bookobjects and create anArrayAdapterfor those books - Attach the adapter for the books to a ListView to display the data on screen