25. HTTP and Background Tasks
The apps that dominate the brains of users are networked apps. Those people fiddling with their phones
instead of talking to each other at dinner? They are maniacally checking their newsfeeds, responding to
text messages, or playing networked games.
To get started with networking in Android, you are going to create a new app called PhotoGallery.
PhotoGallery is a client for the photo-sharing site Flickr. It will fetch and display the most recent
public photos uploaded to Flickr. Figure 25.1 gives you an idea of what the app will look like.
Figure 25.1 Complete PhotoGallery