Project 4 - HappyTweets
HappyTweets is an advanced Twitter client android app of SimpleTweets 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.
Submitted by: Zekun Wang
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
- Usernames and hashtags are styled and clickable within tweets using clickable spans
The following bonus features are implemented:
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
- Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
- User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)
The following additional features are implemented:
- Double tap on Toolbar to fast scroll to top
- Floating action bar reacts to scroll
- Toolbar reacts to scroll
- Reply button reacts to reply input
- Fast reply can expand and jump to reply page
- Multiple reply trigger options
- Click to share link
- Show embedded image within the tweet
- Show embedded video in details activity
- Implement navigation drawer
- Implement CollapsingToolbarLayout
- Click any profile image at any fragment or activity to view user profile
- Long click to delete authenticating user's tweet
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Notes
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app:
- Use RecyclerView and ViewHolder
- Implement Spans and links among Tweet content
- Implement Floating Action Bar and react to scrolling
- Utilize data binding
- Show videos within Tweets
- Interact with Twitter API
- Implement CollapsingToolbarLayout
- Logic design and communication control between activities and fragments
Open-source libraries used
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
License
Copyright [2016] [Zekun Wang]
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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limitations under the License.