Project 3 - My Simmple Tweets

My Simmple Tweets is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 12 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• [ ] User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
• [ ] User can view tweets from their home timeline
  • [ ] User is displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
  • [ ] User is displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
  • [ ] User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination. Number of tweets is unlimited. However there are Twitter Api Rate Limits in place.
• [ ] User can compose and post a new tweet
  • [ ] User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar on the top right
  • [ ] User can then enter a new tweet and post this to twitter
  • [ ] User is taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible in timeline

The following optional features are implemented:

• [ ] User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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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

License

Copyright [2015] [Ram]

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