Week 3 - Twitter Client

[vimalathithanr]

My app is complete. Please review. /cc @codepathreview @codepath

[codepathreview]

Decent submission. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Good layout, proper view naming, usage of sp/dp, margin and relative placement rules
• Good use of string resources for text values
• Consider adding better input validation and user feedback if values are invalid or empty
• Consider better organizing your source files
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out
• Consider including a check to see if internet is available to detect any network failures. Show an approrpiate message in case of failure.
• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly
• Consider adding pull to refresh for the home timeline using the SwipeRefreshLayout
• Good to see you added the tweet to the home timeline after you posted new on compose
• Nice touch with the character count being displayed while the user composes a tweet
• Consider adding local persistence of tweets by using ActiveAndroid in the Tweet and User. See the persistence guide and this other guide for more details.

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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.