/birdfeed

Twitter client Android app

Primary LanguageJava

Birdfeed

A Twitter Client Android App

User Stories

Required:

  • User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
  • User can view the tweets from their home timeline
    • User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
    • User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
    • User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
  • User can compose a new tweet
    • User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar on the top right
    • User can then enter a new tweet and post this to twitter
    • User is taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible in timeline

Optional:

  • On the home feed, links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser (see autolink)
  • When composing a tweet, user can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
  • Advanced: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)
  • Advanced: User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
    • Tweets are persisted into sqlite and can be displayed from the local DB
  • Advanced: User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
  • Advanced: User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
  • Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
  • Bonus: Compose activity is replaced with a modal overlay
  • Bonus: User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view