TwitterClient

A simple Android Twitter client. The full requirements for this app can be found here.

Time spent: 22 hours

Completed user stories:

Following user stories were completed:

Required:

• 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
• 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 post this to twitter
  • User is taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible in timeline
• 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

Optional:

• Compose tweet is shown in a dialog fragment

Advanced:

• Add pull-to-refresh (I used the third party one)
• Offline access to tweets
• Tweets are persisted locally
• Infinite scrolling and pull to refresh correctly use since_id and max_id concepts of Twitter API
• Improved look and feel to be like Twitter

Notes:

• Used Android Studio for development
• Used Genymotion emulator

Walkthrough of all user stories:


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Third party libraries, tools, and sites used:

• Rest Client Template for Oauth, image loading, and network requests.
• iconmonstr for images/assets in the app.