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Lab 2: CodepathMail

Time Spent: Around 2 1/2 hours

In this lab, we'll build a simple clone of the very popular Gmail app.

The main purpose of this lab is to understand how to implement the most common type of screen in mobile apps: scrolling lists.

In Android, RecyclerView is what allows us to easily display a list of data, and we'll utilize this lab to get comfortable working with RecyclerViews.

🎯 Goals

By the end of this lab you will be able to...

  • [ x ] Understand how to display a list of items with RecyclerView
  • [ x ] Understand how to customize the UI for each item in the RecyclerView

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Required Features

  • [ x ] User can scroll through a list of 10 emails
    • Each email includes the following information:
      • Sender
      • Email title
      • Email summary

Stretch Features

  • [ x ] User can press a 'Load More' button to see the next 5 emails displayed
  • [ x ] Each email displays additional information:
    • Picture of the sender
    • [ x ] Email sent date
    • [ x ] Bolded information if the email is unread

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