Project 3 - Simple Tweet

Simple Tweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 21 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following 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 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

The following stretch features are implemented:

• User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
• User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles

The following bonus features are implemented:

• 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 is alerted that they cannot tweet without typing if they attempt to post an empty tweet.
• Word counter turns red when limit is surpassed.
• Tweets are separated by horizontal line.
• Compose tweet button is a floating action button.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

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] [Alexei Tulloch]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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