CSC 349: The Week beginning Oct. 30

• Homework:
  
  Read and summarize the following:
  
  Android 8.1 Developer Preview hands-on: Everything new in Google’s latest update
  
  AMD’s Ryzen CPU with Vega graphics threatens to blow Kaby Lake out of the water
  
  The Pixel 2’s custom camera SoC uses Intel technology
  
  Due: Nov. 7
  
  
• Tuesday:
  
  Loading an image from a URL
  
  Have to edit Gradle Script/build.gradle(Module: app) to compile "Picasso"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ImageFromURL.zip
  
  Android Studio Tutorial - Load Image From URL (youtube)
  
  Make your own lab revisited
  
  Create an app like the one you made previously where you chose your own subject: sports, art, Pokemon, movies, whatever (You can repeat the subject). But this time the data must be in a JSON file. (You should validate your JSON for instance using https://jsonlint.com/.) Also the images will not be downloaded and placed in drawable; instead the JSON file will include the URL's for the images, and they will be accessed dynamically. One or more properties from the JSON data will go into a spinner, and the other info into TextViews. When the user selects a new item from the spinner, the image and data displayed should change accordingly.
  
  Due: Nov. 7
  
  
• Thursday:
  
  Neighbor.zip (using parent-child relationship to determine neighbors)
  
  Volley_JSON.zip Uses Volley to read a JSON file from the Internet.
  
  IMDB from JSON Lab
  Use the JSON file and images found at
  http://www1.lasalle.edu/~blum/c349wks/IMDB/
  which includes a JSON file
  http://www1.lasalle.edu/~blum/c349wks/IMDB/IMDB.json
  and images, for example
  http://www1.lasalle.edu/~blum/c349wks/IMDB/Shawshank.jpg.
  Use Volley to read the remote JSON file. Use the built-in java methods for extracting JSON (e.g. getJSONArray). Populate a spinner with some information (e.g. rank and title). Make it so when the user changes the item selected in the spinner that the corresponding (remote) image and information are displayed.
  
  Due: Nov. 9