TweetTweet Droid is an android Twitter client clone. Yes, yet another one.
Submitted by: Eapen
Time spent in Week 2: 15 hours
Time spent in Week 1: 16 hours spent in total
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Week 2:
Week 1:
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The following required functionality is completed:
- User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs.
- User can view their home timeline tweets.
- User can view the recent mentions of their username.
- User can navigate to view their own profile
- User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
- User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
- User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
- Profile view should include that user's timeline
- Optional: User can view following / followers list through the profile
- User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom
The following optional features are implemented:
- Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- Advanced: When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
- Advanced: User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline
- The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
- [-] Advanced: User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
- Advanced: User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or reweet actions on a tweet
- Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
- Advanced: User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
- Bonus: Replace the existing ActionBar with the newer support App ToolBar instead.
- Bonus: Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
- Bonus: Leverage the popular GSON library to streamline the parsing of JSON data.
- Bonus: User can view their Twitter direct messages (and/or send new ones)
The following additional features are implemented:
- Autolinking content in Tweet's but lost ability to go to detailed tweet view
- Added "Logout" menu option
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
- User can view the tweets from their home timeline
- Should display the username, name, and body for each tweet
- Should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
- User can compose 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
The following optional features are implemented:
- Advanced: While composing a tweet, user can see a character counter with characters remaining for tweet out of 140
- Advanced: Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser (see autolink)
- Advanced: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)
- Advanced: User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets (using sqlite)
- Advanced: User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
- Advanced: User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
- Bonus: User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- Bonus: Compose activity is replaced with a modal overlay
The following additional features are implemented:
- Utilizing ViewHolder pattern for performance optimization
- Displaying HTML characters properly in the TextView
- Added Tweet Detail view
I am using Twitter's deprecated "page" parameter for paging to get the minimum requirements and need to implement the paging using the since_id.
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