[Android Bootcamp] Project 4: Twitter Client - Ready for Review

[ginacyliu]

My App is complete, please review. @nidhi1608, @codepathreview and @thecodepath

Note:Due to Twitter API limitation ({"errors":[{"message":"Rate limit exceeded","code":88}]}), I'll upload mock GIF tomorrow morning.

Time spent: 10 hours spent in coding

User Stories:

• [x] User can sign in using OAuth login flow
• [ ] User can view last 25 tweets from their home timeline
  • [x] User should be able to see the user, body and timestamp for tweet
  • [x] User should be displayed the relative timestamp for a tweet "8m", "7h"
  • [ ] Optional: Links in tweets are clickable and viewable
• [x] User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the list using "infinite scroll" pagination
• [x] User can compose a new tweet
  • [x] User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar on the top right
  • [x] User will have a Compose view opened
  • [x] User can enter a message and hit a button to post to twitter
  • [x] User should be taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible
  • [x] Optional: User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
• [x] Optional: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)
• [ ] Optional: 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
• [ ] Optional: User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
• [ ] Optional: User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
• [ ] Optional: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
• [ ] Stretch: User can see an embedded media (image) within tweet detail view
• [ ] Stretch: Compose View activity is replaced with a modal overlay

Reference:

• Project Video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/70911522
• Twitter My Apps: https://apps.twitter.com/
• Twitter REST API: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public
• TheCodePath REST API: https://github.com/codepath/android-rest-client-template
• TheCodePath Endless Scrolling: https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Endless-Scrolling-with-AdapterViews
• The CodePath PullToRefresh: https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Implementing-Pull-to-Refresh-Guide

[nidhi1608]

:+1: Congrats on completing the assignment! Nice work overall. I have provided a detailed 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, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Preferences, ActionBar, et al) and see how they all fit together.