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8 years ago :+1: decent work. A few notes after checking out the code:
- Good to see you used ViewPager and TabLayout. These components are recommended by Material Design to enhance user experience and are found in majority of the apps. ViewPager can also be used separately without TabLayout to show paging of content using swipe in any section of the screen layout.
- Aim to get familiar with creating custom drawables and styles by trying to customize different widgets.
- Nice to see you played around with styling the sliding tab strip.
- Nice to see you appropriately used OnClickListeners on the user's profile image to navigate to their profile view.
- Nice to see you properly communicated the user to the user timeline fragment from the profile activity.
- Glad to see you properly hooked up each of the different timelines to infinitely paginate.
- 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.
- Consider adding local persistence of tweets by using DBFlow in the
TweetandUser. See the persistence guide and this other guide for more details. - Consider using the folder structure and naming conventions defined in http://guides.codepath.com/android/Organizing-your-Source-Files.
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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.
:+1: decent work. A few notes after checking out the code:
TweetandUser. See the persistence guide and this other guide for more details.max_idto retrieve older batches of tweets as it is recommended by Twitter https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/timelinesHere'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.