/SimpleTweet

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

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Project 3 - SimpleTweet

SimpleTweet 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: 20 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

  • User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
  • User can view tweets from their home timeline
    • User is displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
    • User is displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
  • User can compose and post 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
    • Newly created tweet should be manually inserted into the timeline and not rely on a full refresh

The following stretch features are implemented:

  • User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
  • User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
  • User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
  • User sees an indeterminate progress indicator when any background or network task is happening
  • User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
    • User that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
  • User can tap a tweet to open a detailed tweet view
    • User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
  • User can see embedded image media within a tweet on list or detail view.

The following bonus features are implemented:

  • User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
  • User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
  • Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
  • Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.
  • Use the popular ButterKnife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.

The following additional features are implemented:

  • The number of retweets and favorites appears on each tweet.
    • The count increments when "retweet" or "favorite" is clicked.
  • The date of a tweet (in Twitter's format) appears on the detailed view.
  • The detailed view is scrollable (allowing larger images to be viewed).
  • The home screen has a BottomNavigationView with home, search, and notifications buttons.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

Video Walkthrough

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

The most challenging part of completing this app was getting the UI to look similar to Twitter's, particularly with customizing the Toolbar.

Open-source libraries used

  • Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
  • Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright 1999 Julie Kallini

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