Name of your app is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 40 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 view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination. Number of tweets is unlimited. However there are Twitter Api Rate Limits in place.
- 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
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
- User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
- User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
- User can tap a tweet to open a detailed tweet view
- User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
The following bonus features are implemented:
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- Leverage RecyclerView as a replacement for the ListView and ArrayAdapter for all lists of tweets.
- Move the "Compose" action to a FloatingActionButton instead of on the AppBar.
- On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.
- Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.
- Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
- Replace Picasso with Glide for more efficient image rendering.
- Enable your app to receive implicit intents from other apps. When a link is shared from a web browser, it should pre-fill the text and title of the web page when composing a tweet.
The following additional features are implemented:
- Full screen image view with zoom in gestures.
- Share a tweet via other apps like facebook, whatsapp, gmail and many more. It pre-fills with the author name and body.
- Delete your own tweets.
- Retweet option added in the timeline view and also in detailed view.
- Favorite option added in the timeline view and also in detailed view.
- Added information about the original author and retweeted user of the retweeted message.
- Added custom fonts.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- I spent a good amount of time setting up DBFlow but it requires a lot of changes in code. It is probably a good idea to start coding the application using DBFlow rather than migrating later.
- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Material Dialogs - A beautiful, fluid, and customizable dialogs API.
- Glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
- Glide Transformations - An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Glide.
- Parceler - Android Parcelables made easy through code generation.
- gson - A Java serialization/deserialization library that can convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
- RetroLambda - A gradle plugin for getting java lambda support in java 6, 7 and android.
- PhotoView - Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
- RecyclerView-FlexibleDivider - Android library providing simple way to control divider items (ItemDecoration) of RecyclerView.
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