Project 3 - Twitter App

The Twitter App is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 100 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 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 view home and mentions timelines
• Users can view their personal profile and profiles of people they follow on clicking the profile image within a tweet

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
• User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
  • User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or reweet actions on a tweet
  • User can see embedded image media within the tweet item in list or detail view.
  • User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser to view the tweet.

The following bonus features are implemented:

• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with [ScreenRecorder].

Notes

Improving the UI, specifically the tweet layout was a bit of a challenge.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright [2017] [name of copyright owner]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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