Twitter Client

Overview

A simple Twitter client that supports viewing a Twitter timeline and composing a new tweet

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User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
User can view the tweets from their home timeline
User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
User can compose 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
User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)
User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
Tweets are persisted into sqlite and can be displayed from the local DB
User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
Compose activity is replaced with a modal overlay - not replaced but have the compose fragment come up when the user click on "What's happening" at the bottom of timeline.

Enhanced version features:

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 scroll to bottom of either of these lists and new tweets will load ("infinite scroll")
Implement tabs in a gingerbread-compatible approach
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 should include that user's timeline
User can view following / followers list through the profile
Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
Advanced: 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 reweet actions on a tweet
Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results

Hours spent: 30

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