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Project 2 - Tweeter

Tweeter is an android app that allows a user to view their Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 10 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 refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh

The following optional features are implemented:

  • User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
  • User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
  • User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
  • On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.
  • Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.
  • User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
  • User sees an indeterminate progress indicator when any background or network task is happening
  • User can see embedded image media within a tweet on list or detail view.
  • User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
  • User can view following / followers list through any profile they view.
  • User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles

The following additional features are implemented:

  • List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with [LiceCap](http://www.cockos.com/licecap/).

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

  • Understanding the concepts for the timestamp.
  • Time in general.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2020] [melonpocky]

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