Android SF - Week 3 Project - SimpleTwitterClient - Completed - Please Review

[shawnyapa]

I've finished the required user stories for SimpleTwitterClient, please Review. I added a couple of the simple optionals. The item I'm going back to work on is Active Android. A MUST. The UI is still horribly ugly. My apologies. :)

@nesquena @thecodepath

[codepathreview]

Decent job overall Shawn! A few notes after checking out the code:

• Consider polishing your UI for better readability to make it more Twitter Branded
• Good job formatting the relative time stamp (Consider externalizing the logic into Util class)
• Consider better organizing your source files
• Consider using the ProgressBar indicating network requests
• Consider using Parcelable over Serializable (benefits) for model objects
• Consider adding null checks in JSON parsing for robust error handling
• Consider implementing more optional/bonus features.
• 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.