ChirpNTweet 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: 16 hours spent in total on Week 4 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
- 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:
- Parcelable used
- 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 only view their direct messages
- User can Follow/Unfollow from the Follower/Following list
The following additional features are implemented:
- UI similiar to official twitter app
- Navigation drawer with header image
- Color pallete similiar to official twitter app. e.g. white toolbars, color pallate themed icons
- Signout option
- Twitter Key and Secret stored on a file
- Should have designed the app before implementing all features. Desiging as I added new features led to a design which is not optimum
- Code reuse and inheritance made developing very simple, but the code could still use more OO design
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
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- [DBFlow] (https://github.com/Raizlabs/DBFlow) - A blazing fast, powerful, and very simple ORM android database library that writes database code for you.
- [ButterKnife] (http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/) - Field and method binding for Android views
- [Glide Transformations] (https://github.com/wasabeef/glide-transformations) - An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Glide
- [google-gson] (https://github.com/google/gson) - A Java serialization/deserialization library that can convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
Copyright [2017] [Divya Yadav]
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