Twitter App

[pieteradejong]

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[nesquena]

:+1: nice work overall Pieter. Would love to see you give yourself more time for optionals and polish. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly
• Consider adding pull to refresh for the home timeline as explained in the cliffnotes page
• Good to see you added the tweet to the home timeline after you posted new on compose
• Consider adding the character count for Compose Activity to limit to 140. See this event handler for more details.
• 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, 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.

[pieteradejong]

Twitter Client with Fragments @nesquena @timothy1ee

[nesquena]

Decent work overall. This project is still a little off in some small ways but vaguely works. Here's 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.
• This shouldn't be there any more
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out
• For tabs, try following this approach for cleaner tab listeners and better memory management.
• For a future exercise, challenge yourself to move even more of the logic into the base Fragment class and out of the extension timeline fragments. For example, the scroll listener could be set in the base class and then the "onLoadMore" could call an abstract method which is defined separately in the extended class. This approach could be used to move almost all the logic into the base except for certain key abstract methods.
• Consider adding local persistence of tweets by using ActiveAndroid in the Tweet and User. See the persistence guide and this other guide for more details.

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 and week 7 we will be covering a few important intermediate topics such as more about styling and animation as well as testing.

Following the bootcamp (May 12th), 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 few weeks to get the team project apps in shape for that.

Twitter Client with Fragments

Pieter, you've consistently done strictly required stories and struggled to manage your time to submit these projects by the deadline. I knew when I accepted you into the program that you were less experienced than the other engineers participating and I'm OK with that but I hope you are able to circle back and work more on some of these projects when time permits. I am going to connect you and Rebecca (the other least experienced person) and recommend you pair together potentially in order to continue pushing forward your learning perhaps after the class completes. That said, I hope you are still proud of what you have been able to learn and build in the past 4 weeks!