Downloading Lots of Small Things
Currently, PhotoGallery’s networking works like this: PhotoGalleryViewModel calls FlickrFetchr().fetchPhotos() to download JSON data from Flickr. FlickrFetchr immediately returns an empty LiveData<List<GalleryItem>> object and enqueues an asynchronous Retrofit request to retrieve the data from Flickr. That network request executes on a background thread.
When the data download is complete, FlickrFetchr parses the JSON data into a list of GalleryItems and publishes the list to the live data object it returned. Each GalleryItem now has a URL where a thumbnail-size photo lives.
The next step is to go and get those thumbnails. How will you go about this? FlickrFetchr requests only 100 URLs by default, ...
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