I was given a choice between an initial phone technical interview or a 4-5 hour take-home project. I chose the take-home project because with a phone interview, you never know what random tricky question they'll throw your way.

I put in a bunch of hours over a week into the project and came up with a decent implementation. Then, after I submitted, I didn't hear anything back for two weeks.

When I pinged the recruiter, I got a short "we have decided to not move forward." I felt confused and somewhat offended that that's all I got in response after putting in all that time. I know I did a good job on the project, so it's perplexing.

I feel like I at least deserved to be able to explain the code to the engineer who did the code review.

Implement a pretty standard screen with a RecyclerView that displays images and some text. This data will be fetched from a JSON endpoint.