SimpleTweet 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: 4 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- 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
- User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can click links in tweets launch the web browser
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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The Parceler library was used (stretch story) to pass Tweet data as one object, as denoted with the @Parcel annotation in the Tweet model class.
I attempted to implement viewing tweets offline, however this led to the application crashing upon closing and reopening. The database connection implementation is commented out in TimelineAcitivty.java.
SimpleTweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 3 hours spent in total
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 refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
- Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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