/simple_twitter_client

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Project 4 - Simple Twitter Client

Simple Twitter Client is an android app that allows a user to view home and mentions timelines, view user profiles with user timelines, as well as compose and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 8 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

  • The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
  • User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
    • User can view their home timeline tweets.
    • User can view the recent mentions of their username.
  • User can navigate to view their own profile
    • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
  • User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
  • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
  • Profile view includes that user's timeline
  • User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

  • User can view following / followers list through the profile
  • Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
  • When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
  • User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline
    • The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
  • User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
  • User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
  • Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
  • User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results

The following bonus features are implemented:

  • User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)

The following additional features are implemented:

  • displays the logged in user's profile image as the icon in the toolbar
  • handles displays timelines for users with no tweets
  • works around Twitter bug around max_id with a query that returns only a single result (which is the max id)

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

twitter-walkthrough.gif

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

  • Spent a significant amount of time dealing with an issue where tweets would not display (width and height were zero). The issue ended up being an issue with SwipRefreshLayout with multiple children and relative layout.
  • The notes for this assignment indicated that we should use app:tabMode="scrollable" for the TabLayout, but that resulted in my tabs not taking up the full width. I spent a bit of time figuring out I needed to set it to app:tabMode="fixed".
  • These issues resulted in a lot of time mucking with the UI, instead of implementing features.

Open-source libraries used

  • Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
  • Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright 2015 Anthony Caliendo

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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