Project 2 - SimpleTweet Part II
Submitted by: Muneeb Khawaja SimpleTweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 6 hours spent in total
User Stories
The following required functionality is completed:
- 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 see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
The following optional features are implemented:
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User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
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User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
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User sees an indeterminate progress indicator when any background or network task is happening
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User can tap a tweet to open a detailed tweet view
- User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or reweet actions on a tweet
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User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- User that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
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User can see embedded image media within a tweet on list or detail view.
The following bonus features are implemented:
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.
- User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
- Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
- User can view following / followers list through any profile they view.
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- Use the popular ButterKnife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
- On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets. Persisted in SQLite tweets are refreshed on every application launch. While "live data" is displayed when app can get it from Twitter API, it is also saved for use in offline mode.
The following additional features are implemented:
- The Twitter icon re-directs to the timeline_activity when tapped. Serves as a Back.
- Added re-tweet and favorite count TextViews to the DetailActivity view for Tweets.
- User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet (Stretch Story from Week I of this assignment).
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Project 2 - SimpleTweet Part I
Submitted by: Muneeb Khawaja
SimpleTweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 9 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
- User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
- User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
- User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that 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.
- Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- User sees an indeterminate progress indicator when any background or network task is happening
- User can see embedded image media within a tweet on list or detail view.
- User can view following / followers list through any profile they view.
The following additional features are implemented:
- Aesthetic adjustments; Text-Autosizing for auto adjustment and Text-Styling to more closely resemble the actual twitter app.
- Added a menu to the ActionBar with the Twitter logo as one of the items.
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
GIF created with ShareX.
Notes
Some of the libraries in the walkthroughs were outdated (version vise) with respect to the latest API level. That caused some issues but nothing to bad. I ended up casuing a null pointer exception because of accidentally returning null from a method. This took me considerable time to debug and locate. It was a painful but educational experience.
Open-source libraries used
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
License
Copyright [2019] [Muneeb T. Khawaja]
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