MySimplyTweets is an android app that allows a user to view their Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 30 hours spent in total
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 compose and post a new tweet
- User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar 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 switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs.
- User can navigate to view their own profile (User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile)
- User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
- User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
- User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
- User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- User that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
- User can tap a tweet to open a detailed tweet view
- User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or reweet (and unretweet) actions on a tweet
- User can see embedded image media within a tweet on detail view AND timeline view
The following bonus features are implemented:
- Compose tweet functionality is built using modal overlay
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view AND timeline view
- Reply tweet functionality is built using a modal overlay, user can reply to a tweet from detail view and from timeline 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.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
Copyright [2017] [Hana Pearlman]
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