SimpleTwitterClient

A simple Twitter client that supports viewing a Twitter timeline and composing a new tweet.

Week 4

• 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 tabs 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

• Optional: User can view following / followers list through the profile

• Advanced: Robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures

• Advanced: When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator

• Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded

• Advanced: User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline

• The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose

• Advanced: User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet

• Advanced: User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or reweet actions on a tweet

• Advanced: User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results

• Bonus: User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)

Note

• Have a bug in reply, working on it, it used to work.
• Have a bug in format # of tweets, working on it.

Walkthrough of all user stories:

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Week 3

Time spent: About 3 hours everyday since last Friday, ~20 hours spent in total.

Completed user stories:

• Required: User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login

• Required: User can view the tweets from their home timeline

• Required: User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet

• Required: User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"

• Required: User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination

• Required: Optional: Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser (see autolink)

• Required: User can compose a new tweet

• Required: User can click a “Compose” icon in the Action Bar on the top right

• Required: User can then enter a new tweet and post this to twitter

• Required: User is taken back to home timeline with new tweet visible in timeline

• Required: Optional: User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet

• Advanced: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)

• Advanced: User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet

• Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"

Work-in-progresse:

• Advanced: 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
• Advanced: User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
• Bonus: User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view

Not started:

• Bonus: Compose activity is replaced with a modal overlay

Walkthrough of all user stories: