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[codepathreview]

👍 Excellent Job. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Properly reused the single base method in search activity to fetch results for both initial load and the pagination
• Nice to see you added the search box to the ActionBar!
• Properly used spinners (with populated values) or checkboxes to allow users to select filters
• Good to see you used a filters object to represent the filters to apply to the query
• Properly sent and received relevant filters using a bundle to pass data between activities
• Nice work setting up shared preferences to persist the settings between activities
• Nice work to see you implemented robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
• Good to see you used the RecyclerView with the StaggeredGridLayoutManager to display improve the grid of image results
• Good to see you replaced Picasso with Glide for more efficient image rendering
• Nice job to see the user can scroll down to see more articles. The maximum number of articles is limited by the API search.

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