Project 4: Twitter Clone Updates

[sonnytron]

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I have attached my completed Project 4.
A few notes to graders:
This weekend I had to deliver my dog out of town. It took a lot of time Saturday, so my UI still doesn't have a clean interface or proper colors.
I hit the required stories, but I had some issues with the Twitter API some times not returning results during pagination. But my pagination worked fine last week. I think they are throttling results more.
If you view my code, you can see that I set proper catches if the "max_id" isn't set.

[codepathreview]

Decent submission but try to add more optional features if you get time. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Correctly communicated between Fragment and Activity for User Profile
• Nice to see you used the ViewPager to properly setup the tabs!
• For the sliding tabs, try styling the tabs to customize their appearance.
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out
• Consider adding local persistence of tweets by using ActiveAndroid in the model objects. See the persistence guide and this other guide for more details.
• For a future exercise, challenge yourself to move even more of the logic into the base Fragment class and out of the extension timeline fragments. For example, the scroll listener could be set in the base class and then the onLoadMore could call an abstract method which is defined separately in the extended class. This approach could be used to move almost all the logic into the base except for certain key abstract methods.
• In the future, definitely consider additional polish for the UI by reviewing the cloning a screen tutorial and Q&A and the drawables guide
• Try to implement more optional features so that you will get to play with more widgets and understand complexities involved

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