Tweeter is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 6 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- 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 is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
- User can click links in tweets launch the web browser
- User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- The "Compose" action is moved to a FloatingActionButton instead of on the AppBar
- Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets. Persisted in SQLite tweets are refreshed on every application launch. While "live data" is displayed when app can get it from Twitter API, it is also saved for use in offline mode.
- When a user leaves the compose view without publishing and there is existing text, prompt to save or delete the draft. If saved, the draft should then be persisted to disk and can later be resumed from the compose view.
- Enable your app to receive implicit intents from other apps. When a link is shared from a web browser, it should pre-fill the text and title of the web page when composing a tweet.
Time spent: 15 hours spent in total
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
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
- Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
- User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- User can watch embedded video within the tweet
- 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.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
- Found out OAuth 1.0a is a pain to write from scratch. Attempted to use Scribejava and Signpost but was spending too long on going through the flow.
- Issue when the main page needs to be refreshed when returning back to it from the details view. Need to research if I can persist it behind the details screen?
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
- Parceler - Code generation library that generates the Android Parcelable boilerplate source code
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