Case Study: ImageDownloader App

(Part 1)
Douglas C. Schmidt
d.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu
www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt

Institute for Software

Integrated Systems
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
 Learning Objectives in this Part of the Lesson
1. Recognize key elements in
the ImageDownloader app’s
design

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 Learning Objectives in this Part of the Lesson
1. Recognize key elements in
the ImageDownloader app’s
design
2. Know how to run the app
& interpret its UI & output

Activity
1

Activity
2

Activity
3

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 Learning Objectives in this Part of the Lesson
1. Recognize key elements in
the ImageDownloader app’s
design
2. Know how to run the app
& interpret its UI & output

The goal is to make it easier to understand

4 the detailed source code walkthrough
Key Design Elements in the
ImageDownloader App

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The ImageDownloader app
uses three activities

Activity
1

Activity
2

Activity
3

See gitlab.com/vandy-aad-2/ImageDownloader
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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The ImageDownloader app
uses three activities
1. Prompts user for a URL

Activity
1

Activity
2

Activity
3

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The ImageDownloader app
uses three activities
1. Prompts user for a URL
2. Downloads & stores
the image

Activity
1

Activity
2

Activity
3

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The ImageDownloader app
uses three activities
1. Prompts user for a URL
2. Downloads & stores
the image
3. Displays the image
Activity
1

Activity
2

Activity
3

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The ImageDownloader app
uses three activities
1. Prompts user for a URL
2. Downloads & stores
the image
3. Displays the image
Activity
1
App
Activity A
2
These activities are
both defined in the Activity App
ImageDownloader app 3 B

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The ImageDownloader app
uses three activities
1. Prompts user for a URL
2. Downloads & stores
the image
3. Displays the image
Activity
1
App
Activity A
2

Activity App
3 B
This activity is defined in the Gallery app

See packages/apps/Gallery2/src/com/android/gallery3d/app/Gallery.java
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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The AndroidManifest.xml file declares two activities

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The AndroidManifest.xml file declares two activities

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The AndroidManifest.xml file declares two activities
• DownloadImageActivity handles implicit DOWNLOAD_IMAGE intents

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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• The AndroidManifest.xml file declares two activities
• DownloadImageActivity handles implicit DOWNLOAD_IMAGE intents
• A FileProvider is used to ensure the downloaded image can be stored
securely in external device storage

See developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/FileProvider.html
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 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• There are four classes related to
activities in ImageDownloader

We’ll examine the source code for

16 most of these activities in detail
 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• There are four classes related to
activities in ImageDownloader

Defines a common super class17for logging lifecycle operations

 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• There are four classes related to
activities in ImageDownloader

Defines a common super class that 18

handles dynamic Android permissions
 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• There are four classes related to
activities in ImageDownloader

Prompts user for image URL & uses intents

19 & activities to download & view image
 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• There are four classes related to
activities in ImageDownloader

Downloads image, stores it in local20

file, & returns a Uri to this image file
 Key Design Elements in the ImageDownloader App
• There are four other classes that
provide various utility methods

We will examine these utility classes

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 Running the App
ImageDownloader

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End of Case Study of the
ImageDownloader App
(Part 1)
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