Simple Twitter Client

Extend the Twitter client from previous project to use a tabbed interface and fragments.

Submitted by: Shankar Sundaram

Time spent: 12 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• Includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
• User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
  • User can view their home timeline tweets.
  • User can view the recent mentions of their username.
• User can navigate to view their own profile
  • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
• User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
  • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
  • Profile view should include that user's timeline
• User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

• [ ] Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
• [ ] Advanced: When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
• [ ] Advanced: User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline
• [ ] The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
• [x] Advanced: User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
• [ ] Advanced: User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
• [x] Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
• [ ] Advanced: User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
• [x] Bonus: Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library
• [x] Bonus: Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate
• [ ] Bonus: User can view their Twitter direct messages (and/or send new ones)

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

• Tried to show the link in a WebView in the list view but it did not work well. The performance was terrible and only the newspaper name could fit in the specified height.

License

Copyright [2016] [Shankar Sundaram]

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