Project 2 - Twitter Client
Twitter Client is an android app that allows users to view their Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Part 2
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:
- User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
- Set compose icon as the twitter compose icon on ActionBar.
- Put twitter compose icon on Compose Activity page.
- Changed compose "tweet" button to exactly how twitter's official tweet button looks like.
- Display both user's name and screen name for each tweet, mimics twitter's offcial tweet view.
- Make all user profiles round, just like how Twitter display them.
- Add multiple action buttons: retweet button, like/heart button, and message button.
- Set app logo as the twitter icon.
- Put twitter logo on log-in activity page.
- User can click links in tweets launch the web browser
- User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- The "Compose" action is moved to a FloatingActionButton instead of on the AppBar
- Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- 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.
- When a user leaves the compose view without publishing and there is existing text, prompt to save or delete the draft. If saved, the draft should then be persisted to disk and can later be resumed from the compose view.
- Enable your app to receive implicit intents from other apps. When a link is shared from a web browser, it should pre-fill the text and title of the web page when composing a tweet.
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Video Walkthrough
Here's walkthroughs of implemented user stories:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Notes
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
Open-source libraries used
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
License
Copyright 2020 ©Rennah Weng
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
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Part 1
Time spent: 8 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"
- Display both user's name and screen name for each tweet, mimics twitter's offcial tweet view.
- Make all user profiles round, just like how Twitter display them.
- Add multiple action buttons: retweet button, like/heart button, and message button.
- Set app logo as the twitter icon.
- Put app logo on log-in activity page.
- Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
- 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
- On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.
The following additional features are implemented:
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Open-source libraries used
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
License
Copyright 2020 ©Rennah Weng
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
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.