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: 13 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 view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination. Number of tweets is unlimited. However there are Twitter Api Rate Limits in place.

• [ ] 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

• [ ] The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client

• [ ] User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs

  • [ ] User can view their home timeline tweets.
  • [ ] User can view the recent mentions of their username.

• [ ] User can navigate to view their own profile

  • [ ] 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.

  • [ ] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
  • [ ] Profile view includes that user's timeline

• [ ] User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

• [ ] When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Open-source libraries used

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