Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 4th Edition

Checking for New Photos

Now that your worker is executing, you can add the logic to check for new photos. There are a couple pieces needed for this functionality. You will first need a way to save the ID of the most recent photo the user has seen, then you will need to update your worker class to pull the new photos and compare the stored ID with the newest one from the server. Your worker will also handle picking the request type if there is an existing search query.

The first change you will make is to update QueryPreferences to store and retrieve the latest photo ID from shared preferences.

Listing 27.5  Saving the latest photo ID (QueryPreference.kt)

private const val PREF_SEARCH_QUERY = "searchQuery"
private const val PREF_LAST_RESULT_ID ...