Project 4 - Extended Simple Twitter
Simple Twitter 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: 15 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
- [X] 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
- [X] User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline
- [X] The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
- [X] User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
- [X] User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
- [X] Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
- [ ] User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
- [X] Usernames and hashtags are styled and clickable within tweets using clickable spans
The following bonus features are implemented:
The following additional features are implemented:
- [X] User can go to Profile from Detail View
- [X] If in Profile View already, User should not be able to launch the Same profile
- [X] Used Cursor to load data into RecyclerView
- [X] Used Palette Library to set the Toolbar and Status Bar color based on User's Profile Banner Image (Also if it's too light to diaply text, switch to default accent color and status bar color)
Video Walkthrough
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Another link which Github throws an error with Content Limit exceeded: http://i.imgur.com/lEc1PIz.gif
Notes
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
Open-source libraries used
- CodePath OAuth - Android library for managing OAuth requests
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Active Android - An active record style ORM
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
- ButterKnife - Injection library to reduce boilerplate view code
- Timber - Logging Library
- Stetho - Debug bridge for Android applications
- Parceler - Android Parcelables made easy through code generation
- Palette - Library to extract prominent colors from an image
License
Copyright [2016] [Monu Surana]
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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