[Android Bookcamp] Review my app - Twitter Client

[cindyltq]

My app is complete. Please review.

Thanks!

Cindy T. Li

/cc @nesquena

[nidhi1608]

Great work Cindy. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly
• Consider adding pull to refresh for the home timeline as explained in the cliffnotes page
• Good to see you refreshed the timeline after composing a new tweet
• Nice touch with the character count being displayed while the user composes a tweet
• Good to see you added ActiveAndroid annotations to the models

Here's a detailed Project 3 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this assignment. Hopefully by now you feel pretty comfortable with all the major pieces to basic Android apps (Views, Controllers, ActionBar, Navigation, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Persistence, et al) and see how they all fit together. We are close now to a turning point in the course where you should be hitting a "critical mass" towards your knowledge of Android.

[cindyltq]

Hi Nidhi,

Thank you for reviewing my app in late hours. I made persistence part to work for my app (not just adding annotation to models). I tested it on my phone with the network turned off. But on the emulator, even I turned on the airplane mode, it still somehow got network connection. I followed project hints to configure DDMS on Eclipse, but still not quite sure how to disconnect the network.

[nidhi1608]

Hmm...You can try setting data to 'unregister' in the Emulator control on DDMS view if 'denied' didn't work. If nothing else works, you can try taking your machine off wi-fi/network.

[cindyltq]

Hi Nidhi,

My assignment 4 is complete. Please review.

Thanks! Cindy T. Li

/cc @nesquena

[nidhi1608]

Nice work Cindy. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Nice to see you playing with drawables a bit
• In the future, definitely consider additional polish for the UI by reviewing the cloning a screen tutorial and Q&A and the drawables guide.
• Nice job with including progress indicator
• Nice to see you used the FragmentTabListener to properly setup the tabs
• Good to see you properly communicated the user to the user timeline fragment from the profile activity.
• Nicely done architecting the fragments (base class and extension classes) such that you put as much code and logic as possible in the base class and then used abstract methods to define only the specific behavior where they differ!

Here's a detailed Project 4 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you might be able to improve your submission.

This week (Week 5), we are going to cover the last major piece to the Android puzzle and that is using the hardware and SDK components such as the camera, photo gallery, location, maps, etc. After that, Week 6 and week 7 we will be covering a few important intermediate topics such as more about styling and animation as well as testing.

Following the bootcamp, we are going to have a demo day to celebrate the progress you've all made with our next batch of Android students and multiple companies attending to see the group projects that you all have built. We are going to help however we can over the next few weeks to get the team project apps in shape for that.

[cindyltq]

Nidhi,

Thanks for your valuable input. I always take it seriously and improve my app accordingly.