/MySimpleTweets

Primary LanguageJava

Project 3 - MySimpleTweets

MySimpleTweets is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 19 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:

The following additional features are implemented:

  • Added red color to the counter when the length exceeds the maximum

  • Added close button in the compose dialog

  • Disable "Tweet" button if characters exceeded

  • Added creation date instead of relative date in detail screen

  • Added RTs, Favs and Media image in Detail Activity

  • Added no network detection

  • User can see others followers/following recursively

  • Backwards navigation implemented in Toolbar

  • Added image of the user when tweeting or responding

  • Added Twitter icon for launcher

  • User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet

  • User can watch embedded video within the tweet

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

The use of ActiveAndroid with other libraries forces to tune the classes used. For instance for GSON the @Expose annotation must be used, and for Parceler the class that we want to be serialized must be explicitly indicated: @Parcel(analyze={Tweet.class}).

I had a funny error sending to the REST api a "id" field with a value that Twitter was continuosly rejecting me. After a while I detected the "id" field was not from my Tweet class but from the ActiveAndroid generated class.

Open-source libraries used

License

Copyright [2016] [Jose Luis Martin Romera]

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