/Twitter-

Repo for the Twitter app for Codepath's Remote Android University assignment

Primary LanguageKotlin

Project 2 - Twitter

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

Time spent: 5 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
  • Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
  • Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
  • User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
  • User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
  • User can watch embedded video within the 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.

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.

Notes

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2022] [Mahlangu Nzunda]

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