[Android Bootcamp] Project 4: Twitter Client with Fragments - Ready for review #1

[nyjalusc]

Hey Guys, my work is complete and ready to be reviewed. /cc @codepathreview @codepath

[nyjalusc]

I wanted to add that i had a hard time making the profile activity look pretty. After putting in all the required info there was hardly any space left to show the list of tweets. I gave a shot at using a combination of ScrollView with an embedded listview to mimic what twitter does today. But my efforts went in vain. After giving a fair shot, i found that embedding a listview in a scrollview is an anti-pattern. Nathan did explain to me what Twitter is using to achieve that effect of scrolling, the magic lies in listview headers!! I gave up the idea and polished the screen to the best of my abilities. In order to save some screen space i am not showing one of the required info, tagline, and instead i am showing a profile banner to make it appear pretty. Not all users have taglines, but everyone does have a profile banner. Even if you don't set it up Twitter shows a default placeholder which helps you achieve a consistent view across profile activity of all users. So, purely on the grounds of making my app pretty i made the decision of not showing the tagline. I hope that is cool with you guys.

Thanks.

[codepathreview]

:+1: Excellent work, appreciate all the efforts that you put in these assignments outside of your full-time job. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Glad to see you properly hooked up each of the different timelines to infinitely paginate.
• Nice to see you played around with styling the sliding tab strip
• Great effort on making the app look twitter branded. Profile view looks great!!
• Nice to see you have progress bars displayed during background tasks
• Nice use of tag to setup the ability to click the profile image and view a user's profile
• Nice job getting the Favorite/Retweet/Search features working.
• 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!

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