Project 4 - Bluebird Tweets

Bluebird Tweets is a basic twitter app to read and compose tweets the Twitter API.

Time spent: 36 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• [X] User can sign in using OAuth login flow
• [X] The current signed in user will be persisted across restarts
• [X] User can view last 20 tweets from their home timeline
• [X] In the home timeline, user can view tweet with the user profile picture, username, tweet text, and timestamp.
• [X] User can pull to refresh.
• [X] User should display the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
• [X] Retweeting and favoriting should increment the retweet and favorite count.
• [X] User can tap on a tweet to view it, with controls to retweet, favorite, and reply.
• [X] User can compose a new tweet by tapping on a compose button.
• [X] User can tap the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile
  • [X] Contains the user header view: picture and tagline
  • [X] Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers
  • [X] Profile view should include that user's timeline
• [X] User can navigate to view their own profile
  • [X] Contains the user header view: picture and tagline
  • [X] Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers

The following optional features are implemented:

• [X] User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client.
• [X] User should be able to unretweet and unfavorite and should decrement the retweet and favorite count.
• [X] When composing, you should have a countdown in the upper right for the tweet limit.
• [ ] After creating a new tweet, a user should be able to view it in the timeline immediately without refetching the timeline from the network.
• [X] User can reply to any tweet, and replies should be prefixed with the username and the reply_id should be set when posting the tweet
• [ ] Links in tweets are clickable
• [X] User can switch between timeline, mentions, or profile view through a tab bar
• [ ] Pulling down the profile page should blur and resize the header image.

The following additional features are implemented:

• [X] Added "user" Retweeted icon at the top of retweeted posts to indicate that an original post was retweeted
• [X] UI: added launch screen, app icon and logo in nav bar
• [X] Incorporated auto-layout throughout app
• [X] Compose/reply: placeholder text, warning label when character count exceeds 140

Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):

1. How to avoid rate-limiting issues by strategically choosing what content to reload.
2. How to include media in posts.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

http://imgur.com/GEYAthD GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

The biggest challenge I encountered while building this Twitter client was figuring out how to display retweets.

Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.

• AFNetworking - networking task library
• [Twitter Developers] (https://dev.twitter.com/overview/general/image-resources) - Twitter Brand Resources

License

Copyright 2016 Nicole Mitchell

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