Project 2 - Simple Tweet

Name of your app is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 18 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

[x] User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
[x] User can view tweets from their home timeline
- [x] User is displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
- [x] User is displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
[x] User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh

The following optional features are implemented:

[x] User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
[ ] 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.
[x] 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 can view following / followers list through any profile they view.
[ ] User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles

The following additional features are implemented:

[ ] List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories that were checked:

Sign in (first gif), Show Tweets with proper info (first gif), "infinite scroll pagination" (first gif, fourth gif), click link within tweet body (first gif, third gif), pull down to refresh (first gif, second gif)

Overall features from above, [long gif].

Pulldown Refresh Feature

Link redirect by clicking on link in tweet body.

Scrolling Infinite Pagination

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

I had deep trouble debugging my conflicts with Android's studios emulator I was using, and later the API. Fortunately I recieved help from a fellow peer that gave me some tips to try to fix my emulator situation.

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] [Chester Southwood]

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

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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Chester-Southwood / SimpleTweet

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