Project 3 - Twitter

Twitter is a basic twitter app to read and compose tweets the Twitter API.

Time spent: 20 hours spent in total http://recordit.co/rxkG3iwzaF

User Stories

The following Required functionality is completed:

• User sees app icon in home screen and styled launch screen
• User can sign in using OAuth login flow
• User can Logout
• User can view last 20 tweets from their home timeline
• In the home timeline, user can view tweet with the user profile picture, username, tweet text, and timestamp.
• User can pull to refresh.
• User can tap the retweet and favorite buttons in a tweet cell to retweet and/or favorite a tweet.
• User can compose a new tweet by tapping on a compose button.
• Using AutoLayout, the Tweet cell should adjust it's layout for iPhone 7, Plus and SE device sizes as well as accommodate device rotation.

The following optional features are implemented:

• Tweet Details Page: User can tap on a tweet to view it, with controls to retweet, favorite, and reply.
• User can view their profile in a profile tab
  • Contains the user header view: picture and tagline
  • Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers
  • Profile view should include that user's timeline
• User should display the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
• User should be able to unretweet and unfavorite and should decrement the retweet and favorite count. Refer to [[this guide|unretweeting]] for help on implementing unretweeting.
• Links in tweets are clickable.
• User can tap the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile
  • Contains the user header view: picture and tagline
  • Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers
• User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client.
• When composing, you should have a countdown for the number of characters remaining for the tweet (out of 140) (1 point)
• After creating a new tweet, a user should be able to view it in the timeline immediately without refetching the timeline from the network.
• User can reply to any tweet, and replies should be prefixed with the username and the reply_id should be set when posting the tweet (2 points)
• User sees embedded images in tweet if available
• User can switch between timeline, mentions, or profile view through a tab bar (3 points)
• Profile Page: pulling down the profile page should blur and resize the header image. (4 points)

The following additional features are implemented:

• User can check the last messages
• User can look for GIFS
• User can look for most popular trends around the world
• Animation when the user is getting closer to 140 characters of the tweets

Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):

1. The way that protocols are better than having public variables 2.- Better ways to implement more table views inside the same view controller

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Complete Video(http://recordit.co/rxkG3iwzaF). GIF created with [LiceCap](http://www.cockos.com/licecap/).

Notes

I really like to have challenges in my projects, and in this one I tried to have more functionalities in the app than the required ones. I tried to get more information from the API and also explore what could I do with that.

I found a cool cocoapod about gifs, but the main problem was that it was only for swift, and I looked for another one but the same probelm. So I tried to implemented using a brigde between swift and objc, and I did it. The problem is that my delegate in the swift file was not accesible in the objc file. I waited in the queue but it was a very extra functionality that I was at the end of the queue.

Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.

• AFNetworking - networking task library

License

Copyright [2019] [Alejandro Hernandez Lopez]

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