Project 2 - SimpleTweet

SimpleTweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline, view a detailed version of tweets in the timeline, and compose and post new tweets. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
• User can view tweets from their home timeline
  • User is displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
  • User is displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
• User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh
• User can compose and post a new tweet
  • User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar on the top right
  • User can then enter a new tweet and post this to twitter
  • User is taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible in timeline
  • Newly created tweet should be manually inserted into the timeline and not rely on a full refresh
  • User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
• User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
• On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.
• Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.
• User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
• User sees an indeterminate progress indicator when any background or network task is happening
• User can see embedded image media within a tweet on list or detail view.
• User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
• User can view following / followers list through any profile they view.
• User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

I had some errors with the gradle file for the project initially, but I resolved it by downgrading the gradle version. I would have liked to add custom images to the app as well to improve the UI, but was not sure how. I did however, implement a "detailed" version of a tweet when tapped on in the timeline by using a similar method to the last assignment, by creating a new activity and passing off the tweet as a parcelable object.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright [2019] [Arif Banai]

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