/Tweeter

Simple Twitter Client

Primary LanguageJava

Project 3 - TweeterClient

TweeterClient displays the Tweets from your Timeline. The app utilizes the Twitter REST API.

Submitted by: Rakesh Nair Paruthikkat

Time spent: 15 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

  • User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
  • 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 click a "Compose" icon in the AppBar 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 optional features are implemented:

  • Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures.
  • While composing a tweet, user can see a character counter with characters remaining for tweet out of 140

The following bonus features are implemented:

  • Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
  • Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate
  • On the Twitter timeline, leveraged the CoordinatorLayout.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

Open-source libraries used

  • Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
  • picasso transformations - An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Picasso

License

Copyright [2017] [Rakesh Nair Paruthikkat]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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