[Android Bootcamp] Review Nina's Twitter App

[nguo]

Please review my twitter app. Thanks! /cc @nesquena @timothy1ee

Question:

1. I got an error when trying to retweet saying "not authorized to use this endpoint." Any ideas what that means?

Hours spent: 21

Optional stories I did:

• Links in tweets are clickable and viewable
• User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
• User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh
• User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets -- even if the user isn't offline, the first tweets that the user will see are from the local db. The app only makes requests when the user wants to see older/newer tweets (or, on first install)
• Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded -- changed some colors, add the reply and favorite icon buttons on each tweet in the timeline.

[nesquena]

Want to make a special note here since you submitted an excellent project, implementing many of the optionals. I fully understand and appreciate that most everyone in this class has full-time work and many other obligations in their lives, which makes those who are able to submit polished versions by the deadline earn my respect that much more. Really hope you found this project to be a great learning experience. If you enjoy this class at the end and you believe in what we are doing with CodePath, I'd love to chat with you about ways you can act as mentor, help with our community efforts or even act as a (paid) instructor in the future.

A few notes after checking out the code:

• Noted your attention to detail and UI polish
• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly
• Nice to see you used a PullToRefresh library for easy timeline refreshes
• Good to see you added the tweet to the home timeline after you posted new on compose
• Nice touch with the character count being calculated for Compose
• Good to see you added ActiveAndroid annotations to the models

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

[nesquena]

I got an error when trying to retweet saying "not authorized to use this endpoint." Any ideas what that means?

As far as I can tell, this is a quirk in the twitter API which flags certain apps unable to retweet because they have been flagged for likely to spam. I've had a few people in the past that had this issue. Once posted this to twitter support and they changed something that made it work again.