Tweety is an android app that allows a user to view home and mentions timelines, view user profiles with user timelines, as well as compose and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: On Wednesday I came down with a nasty cold, and for the three days after that in particular I just had zero energy and a very large amount of coughing fits, so it has been very slow going. I did complete all the requirements, but not as many other features as I would have under happier circumstances.
The following required functionality is completed:
- The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
- User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
- User can view their home timeline tweets.
- User can view the recent mentions of their username.
- 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.
- User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
- Profile view includes that user's timeline
- User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can view following / followers list through the profile
- Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
- User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline
- The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
- User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
- User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
- User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
The following bonus features are implemented:
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
- Leverage the popular GSON library to streamline the parsing of JSON data.
- User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)
The following additional features are implemented:
- Leverage RecyclerView as a replacement for the ListView and ArrayAdapter for all lists of tweets.
- User can click a link within a tweet body within the Timeline activity. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
- Tweet detail functionality is built using modal overlay
- Move the "Compose" action to a FloatingActionButton instead of on the AppBar.
- User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Tweety image in icon from http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/Tweety
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
- RoundedImageView - Fast ImageView (and Drawable) that supports rounded corners (and ovals or circles)
- PagerSlidingTabStrip - An interactive indicator to navigate between the different pages of a ViewPager
Copyright 2016 Tané Tachyon
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