/Tweetz

Primary LanguageJava

Project 4 - Tweetz

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

Submitted by: Rakesh Nair Paruthikkat

Time spent: 16 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
  • User can view their home timeline tweets.
  • User can view the recent mentions of their username.
  • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
  • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
  • Profile view displays the user's timeline
  • User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

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 Fragements
  • Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate
  • On the Twitter timeline, leveraged the CoordinatorLayout.
  • On the profile screen, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior as the user scrolls through the profile timeline

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

Open-source libraries used

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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