Project 4 - NeatTweet HD

NeatTweet HD 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: 35 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:

• [x] User can view following / followers list through the profile
• [x] Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
• [x] 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
• [ ] 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
• [x] 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:

• [x] Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• [ ] Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
• [x] Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
• [x] User can view their direct messages

The following additional features are implemented:

• [x] Customized the page sliding tabar with icons, and custom color. The icon dynamically changes based on the current selected tab.
• [x] Added ability to compose a tweet or reply to a tweet from any tab
• [x] Added Usertimeline and Direct Messages part as tabs
• [x] Integrated Navigation drawer, when a user clicks his own profile pic, it brings out a custom designed drawer .
• [x] Search functionality replaces the tab content dynamically with search results and the corresponsding header and on cancelling search it resets back to home timeline with corresponding icon
• [x] Shows list of Favorites and Retweets (only for the current user) in the user detail page
• [x] Integrated collapsable toolbar with coordinator layout and scroll effects
• [x] Dynamically changes the text color for the currently selected tab
• [x] Fetch user banner image for each user to display in the user detail as background.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android
• Android ScalableView - Play video in recycler view
• Pager Sliding Tab strip - Adds a tab strip which slides
• Butterknife - Reduces view boilerplate code
• Glide
• Parceler
• View Pager Transforms

License

Copyright [2016] [Vidhur Voora]

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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