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: 14 hours spent in total
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
- 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.
- On the profile screen, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior as the user scrolls through the profile timeline.
- User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)
The following additional features are implemented:
- Added CoordinatorLayout on the main timeline screen
- Added Endless scroll for all Tweets list and user views
- Added ability to follow and unfollow users
- Added navigation view with header
- Added automatic scroll to top functionality when a new tweet is made
- Added ability to favorite, unfavorite, retweet, and reply to users
- Added instant UI feedback upon sucessful favoriting/unfavoriting, retweeting, and replying
- Added incrementation of favorite and retweet count upon selecting for better UX
- Added ViewPager and PagerSlidingTabStrip for direct messages
- Added ViewPager and PagerSlidingTabStrip for profile view
- Added background banner image to Toolbar.
- Added async database storage
- Implemented MVVM architecture with data binding
- Enforced limits for tweets that are too long
- Added ability to log out
- Implemented custom toolbar with iconography of the logged-in user for context
- Used Retrolambda to simplify callbacks
- Used Butterknife to simplify view boilerplate
- Used Gson to read JSON
- Added link to scroll to top by clicking on Twitter logo for better UX (don’t want to have the user manually scroll to the top to pulll to refresh, for example.
- Added LinkifiedTextView to solve problem with click propagation when list item is selected
- Added custom fonts for composing views
- Used Glide transformations
- Added context and automatic @ for replies
- Added dividers for better visual separation of tweets
- Followed Twitter branding guidelines and use official iconography - SVG -> vector drawable conversion
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Previous demos:
Coordinator Layout With Background Image on Profile Demo
Demo of previous user stories from week three GIF created with LiceCap.
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
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