19 Web Services

In the next four chapters, you will create an application named Photorama that reads in a list of recent photos from Flickr. This chapter will lay the foundation and focus on implementing the web service requests responsible for fetching the metadata for recent photos as well as downloading the image data for a specific photo. In Chapter 20, you will display all of the recent photos in a grid layout. Figure 19.1 shows Photorama at the end of this chapter.

Figure 19.1  Photorama

Photorama

Your web browser uses the HTTP protocol to communicate with a web server. In the simplest interaction, the browser sends a request ...

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