A simple twitter client app for Android.
Time spent: In total, ~23 hours.
- User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
- User can view the tweets from their home timeline
- User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
- User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
- Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser (see autolink)
- 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
- User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
- Tweets are persisted into sqlite and can be displayed from the local DB
- User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
- User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- Compose activity is replaced with a modal overlay
Time spent: In total, ~20 hours. Most time was spent in getting the UI to my liking.
- 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")
- 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
- User can view following / followers list through the profile
- Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
- User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
- User can take favorite (and unfavorite) actions on a tweet
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
- User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
Walkthrough of all user stories:
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Used Twitters's APIs to get the data, UniversaleImageLoader (https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader) to download and display the images and Android Async Http Client for all Async calls to the Instagram APIs (http://loopj.com/android-async-http/). Also used Scribe (https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/scribe-java) for oauth and Codepath's Rest Client template (https://github.com/thecodepath/android-rest-client-template).