SimpleTweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 20 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
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
- Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
- User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- User can watch embedded video within the tweet
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
- On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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- Still need to improve its UI features.
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