[Android Bootcamp] Twitter client part 2

[sophiataskova]

/cc @codepathreview @codepath Spent too much time on persisting with Sugar ORM and still working on the "see other users' profiles" user story.

[nesquena]

OK please ping back here again when all required user stories are complete (including user profiles which is a key one). Please make sure to submit that ASAP (latest by midnight).

[nesquena]

(Also check helpful hints tip #8, there's a few potential gotchas with viewing other user's profiles)

[sophiataskova]

Hi Nathan, sincere apologies for the delay! I was looking at the hints but none of them are related to what I'm stuck with. I'm having trouble figuring out what the request for another user's profile info should look like. I tried https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json with a screen_name parameter, and I'm getting a "No user matches for specified terms." message back from twitter

[sophiataskova]

Would you mind talking a little more about my issue above? I tried

public void userLookup(String screenName, AsyncHttpResponseHandler handler) { String apiUrl = "https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/show.json"; RequestParams params = new RequestParams(); params.put("screen_name", screenName); getClient().get(apiUrl, params, handler); }

where screenName is, for example, RichardDawkins, and I'm getting an error response {"errors":[{"message":"Sorry, that page does not exist","code":34}]}

[nesquena]

https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/show is the reference page

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json is the actual endpoint as described on that page.

[sophiataskova]

Ah, nothing works when in a rush... Thank you for your answers, I've pushed up the last required user story and I'll be adding a gif and updating the readme as soon as I get un-ratelimited.

[sophiataskova]

Added gif to readme! Thank you so much for your patience.

[codepathreview]

:+1: nice work getting the required stories done. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Glad to see you properly hooked up each of the different timelines to infinitely paginate.
• In the future, definitely consider additional polish for the UI by reviewing the cloning a screen tutorial and Q&A and the drawables guide.
• For the sliding tabs, try styling the tabs to customize their appearance.
• Remember to add an indeterminate progress indicator during background tasks
• 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.
• As an additional exercise, I would encourage you to implement further features like retweet, favorites and search tweets.

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This week (Week 5), we are going to cover the last major piece to the Android puzzle and that is using the hardware and SDK components such as the camera, photo gallery, location, maps, etc. After that, Week 6 and week 7 we will be covering a few important intermediate topics such as more about styling and animation as well as testing.

Following the bootcamp, we are going to have a public demo day to celebrate the progress you've all made with our next batch of Android students and multiple companies attending to see the group projects that you all have built. We are going to help however we can over the next few weeks to get the team project apps in shape for that.