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Posted by Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

What is this called? Best Answer Guaranteed!

Okay, I need to know what you would call 'a commonplace'. I need a app that takes like a photo from a user, and displays it to all existing users. But Team Treehouse does not cover that. Does anybody know? @jonkussmann @Gloria Dwomoh @Ben Jakuben

2 Answers

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

One route you can take for this is to create a web application with a REST API(or some other API setup) and use your Android app to interface with that API. Its how a lot of the more mainstream sites likely do so, so that they can reach the broadest audiences possible(desktop and mobile users).

Another route you could take is like the Ribbit application tutorials here on Treehouse do and make some modifications to that since it currently allows you to choose the people you share it with and "removes" the image from the user's list some time after they've viewed it, but would be a minor modification. You can start that course here.

Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

I am only using mobile

Gunjeet Hattar
Gunjeet Hattar
14,483 Points
Gunjeet Hattar
Gunjeet Hattar
14,483 Points

So a photo sharing app basically. There are many examples available online that help teach building apps similar to that like Instagram. I'm not sure what different are you planning to do in your app, but if it's just displaying images from a user to other users, it should have a good number examples already available.

Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

Well, please don't take my idea. I worked very hard on this idea. But you download my app, then people all over the world post photos of stuff, and people would see 8 of the most relevant photos, you can also take photos and publish it, it is non-profit.

Farouk Charkas
Farouk Charkas
1,957 Points

Do you know where I can find these LOVELY tutorials?