Project 2 - Twitter
Twitter is a basic twitter app to read and compose tweets using the Twitter API.
Time spent: 50 hours spent in total
User Stories
The following core features are completed:
A user should
- See an app icon in the home screen and a styled launch screen
- Be able to log in using their Twitter account
- See at latest the latest 20 tweets for a Twitter account in a Table View
- Be able to refresh data by pulling down on the Table View
- Be able to like and retweet from their Timeline view
- Only be able to access content if logged in
- Each tweet should display user profile picture, username, screen name, tweet text, timestamp, as well as buttons and labels for favorite, reply, and retweet counts.
- Compose and post a tweet from a Compose Tweet view, launched from a Compose button on the Nav bar.
- See Tweet details in a Details view
- App should render consistently all views and subviews in recent iPhone models and all orientations
The following stretch features are implemented:
A user could
- Be able to unlike or un-retweet by tapping a liked or retweeted Tweet button, respectively. (Doing so will decrement the count for each)
- Click on links that appear in Tweets
- See embedded media in Tweets that contain images or videos
- Reply to any Tweet (2 points)
- Replies should be prefixed with the username
- The
reply_id
should be set when posting the tweet
- See a character count when composing a Tweet (as well as a warning) (140 characters) (1 point)
- Load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client
- Click on a Profile image to reveal another user's profile page, including:
- Header view: picture and tagline
- Basic stats: #tweets, #following, #followers
- Switch between timeline, mentions, or profile view through a tab bar (3 points)
- Profile Page: pulling down the profile page should blur and resize the header image. (4 points)
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):
- How to view comments
- How to search profiles
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Notes
I had challenges with POST requests with the Twitter API (retweeting, favoriting, etc), but I navigated them with help from Twitter's developer pages. I had challenges with Auto-Layout, specifically adjusting cell height according to the amount of text given. I had trouble with seguing between views.
Credits
List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.
- AFNetworking - networking task library