[Intro to iOS] Project 3: Review my app

[roboxue]

/cc @codepathreview

Finished almost all the user stories!

The only missing part is the de-retweet function ----- it is a little bit tricky to implement as I wasn't able to find the id of my retweet, looks like I didn't receive it from my timeline. So I gave up on this.

Wish I can learn from the next week:

• An elegant way to concat multiple attributed text.
• An elegant way to display a label alongside with an icon button

[nickai]

:+1: Great work Robert! The point of this homework was to explore an example of a full MVC application with a RESTful API. A few notes after checking out the code:

• For creating a button with both an icon and text, you can do something like this stack overflow answer.
• NSAttributedString has a clunky api. Your alternative option is to specify formatting through html or pulling in a cocoa pod similar to this one.
• Note that you should try handling the conditionally present retweet label in the cells. This is a situation where its not possible to specify the behavior that you want solely using Interface Builder.
• Nice work setting up the controls within the Tweet cells. It can sometimes be hard to have a clean design for embedded controls because it usually involves cumbersome plumbing. This is an instance where I think having the model handle the network action helps greatly simplify the implementation.
• You should try implementing the compose a new tweet insertion into the feed without a network request. In real MVC apps, the more polished experiences have to do a certain amount of local object management to make a fully seamless experience.

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