Difference between revisions of "GridView"

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GridView is an app I wrote for Facebook, a social networking site. GridView lets you add the profile pictures of all of your friends to your Facebook profile, so everyone can see them. GridView was originally called FaceView, but Facebook doesn't like apps which have the word "face" in the name.

Taken Off

GridView has really taken off beyond my wildest dreams. As of writing this, it has 420,000 installs, including about 10,000 new users every day. Each day about 45,000 - 60,000 people use it. I never thought that the idea would be this popular. Users tell me GridView makes it easy for them to find their friends, and is a piece of profile artwork.

Up to date (kind of) 3rd party stats

Mosaics

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My GridView Mosaic (now 4 times the detail!)

GridView Mosaics are the logical extension to GridView. Mosaics lets users create photo mosaics of their profile pictures using their friend's profile pictures as tiles. Mosaics look best when you have a lot of friends and when you have a profile picture with a range of colors. Recently, GridView added the option to create Mosaics with 4 times the detail, by reducing the size of each tile.

Idea and Start

I came up with the idea on the last day of 10th Grade. I was thinking about Facebook's name: a book of faces. Thinking about it made me realize that they don't really have a place where you can see all of your friend's faces. I wrote GridView all that afternoon in about 5 hours. I had to become familiar with Facebook's API, and APIs in general, because it was my first app using an API. Facebook provides good tools for helping people get started.

The square grid arrangement of photos was inspired by Flickr

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