SimpleTweet is an Android app that allows a user to view his/her Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 11 hours spent in total
The following 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
- User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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One challenge encountered while building this app was showing the character count as a tweet was composed; a new dependency and support library was added to Android Studio to incorporate this functionality using a TextInputLayout instead of ConstraintLayout for the Compose activity.
The following 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, body, and user profile image for each tweet
- User is displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
- User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Importing the RestClient Template and showing the timestamp for each tweet based on the information provided in Twitter's API were some of the challenges encountered while building SimpleTweet. I had to update Android Studio and implement the code to parse a relative twitter date, among other functionalities, to create a holistic Twitter app.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
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