[Android Bootcamp] Please review my app!

[nehakarajgikar]

/cc @nesquena So I implemented the Pull To Refresh, but I see some very odd behaviour, which is that it gets previous tweets and not the latest ones. What am I missing?

Thanks, Neha

[nesquena]

Neha, :+1: excellent submission! A few notes after checking out the code:

• Nice to see you used PullToRefresh library
• Good that you only have a single method which calls getHomeTimeline
• Good to see you added the tweet after you posted new on compose
• Nice touch with the character count being calculated for Compose
• Consider adding ActiveAndroid to the Tweet and User. See the persistence guide and this other guide for more details.

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, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Preferences, ActionBar, et al) and see how they all fit together. We are close to a turning point in the course where you should be hitting a "critical mass" for your Android knowledge.

[nesquena]

So I implemented the Pull To Refresh, but I see some very odd behaviour, which is that it gets previous tweets and not the latest ones. What am I missing?

Did you resolve this?

[nehakarajgikar]

Yes I did! It was the maxId not being reset. Thanks!

[nehakarajgikar]

/cc @nesquena I've completed all the required parts of the assignment, and I'm still working on getting the retweet, favourite and reply to working. But I just wanted to put it out there for review any case. Thanks for all your help1

[nesquena]

Neha, :+1: nice work overall. A few notes after checking out the code:

• In the future, definitely consider additional polish for the UI by reviewing the cloning a screen tutorial and Q&A and the drawables guide.
• For tabs, try following this approach for cleaner tab listeners and better memory management.
• Nice use of tag to setup the ability to click the profile image and view a user's profile
• 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! Also using fragment setArguments

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 we will be covering all the topics that separate an intermediate Android developer from a beginner that will act things you should start reviewing to continue your path to being a great Android developer.

Week 7 (Nov 11th), 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 2 weeks to get the apps in shape and also have you all prepare a short slide presentation as well.