20 Web Services
In the next four 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. In Chapter 21, you will display all of the interesting photos in a grid layout. Figure 20.1 shows Photorama at the end of this chapter.
Figure 20.1 Photorama
Your web browser uses HTTP to communicate with a web server. In the simplest interaction, the browser sends a request ...
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