[Android Bootcamp] - Advanced Twitter Client

[NatashaTheRobot]

@nesquena @timothy1ee - still trying to understand abstract classes - How would I refactor the UserTimelineFragment? Not sure how to use interfaces - need to look more into that as well!

[nesquena]

Hey Natasha, will do a full code review soon. If you want to stay a bit after class, might be a bit easier to show you some refactoring options in person. In short, there are approaches where you can move everything into the base class including for UserTimeline but they might require loading the user fragment dynamically (at runtime passing in the user as an argument) rather than statically (in the xml). Also, consolidating the initial load method and the paginating method (since there's only a few differences such as the lastTweetId) to cleanup the base class. We can chat more in person before or after class tomorrow if you'd like me to walk you through in more detail.

[nesquena]

:+1: nice work overall. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Nice to see you used styles to customize the view
• For tabs, try following this approach for cleaner tab listeners and better memory management.
• Good to see you properly communicated the user to the user timeline fragment from the activity.
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out
• Challenge yourself to move even more of the logic into the base Fragment class and out of the extension timeline fragments.

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