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: 10 hours spent in total
- User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs. (4 points)
- User can view their home timeline tweets.
- User can view the recent mentions of their username.
- User can navigate to view their own profile (3 points)
- 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. (2 points)
- User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
- Profile view should include that user's timeline
- Optional: User can view following / followers list through the profile
- User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom (1 point)
The following advanced user stories are optional:
- Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures (1 point)
- Advanced: When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator (1 point)
- Advanced: User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline (1 point)
- The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose (1 point)
- Advanced: User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet (1 point)
- Advanced: User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet (1 point)
- Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded" (1 to 5 points)
- Advanced: User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results (2 points)
- Bonus: Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library. (1 point)
- Bonus: Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate. (1 point)
- Bonus: User can view their Twitter direct messages (and/or send new ones) (2 points)efactory.com/blog/get-to-know-glide-recommended-by-google/en) for more efficient image rendering.
The following additional features are implemented:
- Use a single fragment with a recyclerview for the User Timeline, Mentions, Home TimeLine and Profiles
- Ensure clicking on a profile when on the current users profile does not trigger an additional activity
- Use Gson to store UserData into shared preferences
- Add a layer of abstraction on top our TwitterClient to hide some ugliness
- Add a way to use mock data from save json files so I wouldn't hit the rate limiter
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- ButterKnife Annotation library to reduce view boilerplate
- Glide Image downloading and caching library
- RecyclerView Animators RecyclerView Animiations
- Prettytime Timestamp formatting