20 Web Services

Over the next five chapters, you will create an application named Photorama that reads in a list of interesting photos from Flickr. This chapter will lay the foundation and focus on implementing the web service requests responsible for fetching the metadata for interesting photos as well as downloading the image data for a specific photo. Figure 20.1 shows Photorama at the end of this chapter. In Chapter 21, you will display all the interesting photos in a grid layout.

Figure 20.1  Photorama

Photorama

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