Project 4 - Simple Tweets Part 2

SimpleTweets 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: 8 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

[x] The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
[x] User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
- [x] User can view their home timeline tweets.
- [x] User can view the recent mentions of their username.
[x] User can navigate to view their own profile
- [x] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
[x] User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
- [x] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
- [x] Profile view includes that user's timeline
[x] User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

[ ] User can view following / followers list through the profile
[ ] Implements 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
[ ] 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 retweet actions on a tweet
[ ] User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
[ ] Usernames and hashtags are styled and clickable within tweets using clickable spans

The following bonus features are implemented:

[ ] Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
[ ] Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
[ ] On the profile screen, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior as the user scrolls through the profile timeline.
[ ] User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)

The following additional features are implemented:

[ ] List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Refactoring the code to not be in MainTimeLine activity but in the fragment took some time. Once I got it done it was very easy to create subclasses of the main tweet list fragment and just call the right api to get other timelines. The base class handles all of the infinite scrolling and paging and displaying of the tweets themselves.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright 2017 Ilya Seletsky

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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