Tweetr - The Twitter Client

Tweetr is a simple twitter client where in you authenticate with your Twitter account (Tweetr does not save password) and view your timeline, reply to a tweet or post a new tweet.

Features for the app:

• Simple login mechanism using the OAuth flow.
• Once authenticated, land on your user timeline and view list of 25 most recent tweets.
• The tweets are loaded with an intuitive animation which makes the app more engrossing.
• Swipe left or right on a tweet to hide it temporarily
• The tweets in timeline also contain embedded media images along with clickable links to go to the website.
• More tweets are automatically loaded once you reach the end of page (endless scrolling).
• Compose a new tweet by clicking on the compose button in Menu bar or by clicking on "What's Happening" in the timeline.
• Interactive character counter to make sure you don't exceed your character limit.
• Click on any tweet to view more details for the same including a larger version of the image.
• Directly reply to the author of the tweet from the tweet detail page.

Screenshots:

1) Login Screen:

2) Authenticate your twitter account to tweetr:

3a) Tweetr Timeline screenshots:

3b) Tweetr Timeline screenshots:

3c) Tweetr Timeline - Swipe left or right on a tweet to hide it temporarily:


3d) Pull down list to refresh tweets

4) Detailed tweet:

5) Reply to author of the tweet:

6) Compose a new tweet:

7) Refresh timeline after posting tweet :

Sample APK is included in the sampleapk folder (Tweetr.apk).

The following libraries are used to make this possible:

• scribe-java - Simple OAuth library for handling the authentication flow.
• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• codepath-oauth - Custom-built library for managing OAuth authentication and signing of requests
• UniversalImageLoader - Used for async image loading and caching them in memory and on disk.
• ListView Animations - Easily create ListViews with animations.
• PullToRefresh Listview - A generic, customizable, open source Android ListView implementation that has 'Pull to Refresh' functionality.