Project 4 - Twitter with Fragments

Twitter with Fragments is an Android app that allows users to view their home and mentions timelines in a tabbed interface. Users can also compose and post tweets as well as view the profiles and timelines of others. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 14 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 view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination. Number of tweets is unlimited. However there are Twitter Api Rate Limits in place.

• 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

• 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 includes that user's timeline

• User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

• Usernames and hashtags are styled and clickable within tweets using clickable spans

The following bonus features are implemented:

• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.

The following additional features are implemented:

• User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
• 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 pull down to refresh tweets timeline
• Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
• Leverage RecyclerView as a replacement for the ListView and ArrayAdapter for all lists of tweets.
• Replace Picasso with Glide for more efficient image rendering.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Open-source libraries used

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

License

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