Twitter Client Mobile App version2 with backward compatibility with Gingerbread OS (minSDK 10)

Overview

Twitter Client App

• User can login in, compose a tweet and read tweets on his/her timeline from Twitter.
• User can see profile and tweets of other on their timeline.

Background Overview

This app use RestClientTemplate as a skeleton. RestClientTemplate Rest Client Template is used for making things related to OAuth simpler.

The following things are supported out of the box:

• Authenticating with any OAuth 1.0a or OAuth 2 API
• Sending requests for and parsing JSON API data using a defined client
• Persisting data to a local SQLite store through an ORM layer
• Displaying and caching remote image data into views

The following libraries are used to make this possible:

• scribe-java - Simple OAuth library for handling the authentication flow.
• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• codepath-oauth - Custom-built library for managing OAuth authentication and signing of requests
• UniversalImageLoader - Used for async image loading and caching them in memory and on disk.
• ActiveAndroid - Simple ORM for persisting a local SQLite database on the Android device

User Stories:

• User can sign in using OAuth login flow
• User can view last 25 tweets from their home timeline
• User should be able to see the user, body and timestamp for tweet
• User should be displayed the relative timestamp for a tweet "8m", "7h"
• User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the list using "infinite scroll" pagination
• User can compose a new tweet
  • User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar on the top right
  • User will have a Compose view opened
  • User can enter a message and hit a button to post to twitter
  • User should be taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible
    • Optional: User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
• Optional: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)

Additional User stories:

• 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 scroll to bottom of either of these lists and new tweets will load ("infinite scroll")
  • Optional: Implement this in a gingerbread-compatible approach

• 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