SimpleTweets 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: 20 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login process
- User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
- 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 from a second activity and then post this to twitter
- Also from the profile view!
- 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 of recent tweets
The following optional features are implemented:
- While composing a tweet, user can see a character counter with characters remaining for tweet out of 140
- User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results.
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded with colors and styles
- User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened. (forgot to licecap this)
- Used Parcelable instead of Serializable leveraging the popular [Parceler
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets. Persisted in SQLite tweets are refreshed on every application launch. While "live data" is displayed when app can get it from Twitter API, it is also saved for use in an offline mode.
The following additional features are implemented: *[x] Compose a tweet from the profile activity
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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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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