Simple Twitter Client
This is an Android application for the Simple Twitter Client using the Twitter API, the android-async-http library and the RestClientTemplate.
Time spent:
Completed user stories in base project (SimpleTwitterClient):
- User can sign into Twitter using OAuth login
- User can view the tweets from their home timeline:
- User is displayed the profile picture, username, name and body for each tweet
- User is displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinte pagination (using page param)
- User can compose 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 hit the Tweet button in the Action Bar on the top right; the user's tweet will be posted to Twitter.
- User is then taken back to their home timeline where the new tweet shows up in their timeline!
- A color theme for the Action Bar and App/Twitter logos was developed.
Walkthrough of base user story (SimpleTwitterClient):
Modifications to base user stories (SimpleTwitterClientPopUpAndCounter):
- When user creates a new tweet, now instead of changing screens a tweet entry dialog pops up.
- The user can see how many characters they have left to type until they hit Twitter's 140 character limit for a tweet.
- The dialog will not allow the user to enter any more than 140 characters into the text entry field
Walkthrough of new features added to base user story (SimpleTwitterClientPopUpAndCounter):
Addition of Pull to Refresh to modifications to base user stories (SimpleTwitterClientPullToRefresh): Added Pull to Refresh feature using the third party library: chrisbanes/ActionBar-PullToRefresh
- User can now pull to refresh tweets on their home timeline
Walkthrough of new pull to refresh feature (SimpleTwitterClientPullToRefresh):
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