Project 4 - Simple Twitter Client+

Simple Twitter Client+ 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: X hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• [x] The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
• [x] User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
  • [x] User can view their home timeline tweets.
  • [x] User can view the recent mentions of their username.
• [x] User can navigate to view their own profile
  • [x] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
• [x] User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
  • [x] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
  • [x] Profile view includes that user's timeline
• [x] User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

• [x] User can view following / followers list through the profile
• [x] Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
• [x] 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
• [x] 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:

• [ ] User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)

The following additional features are implemented:

• [x] use view holder to improve performance
• [x] use BroadcastReceiver to listen for new compose and update home timeline fragment

Video Walkthrough

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
• ActiveAndroid - ActiveAndroid is an active record style ORM with SQLite