ALLOTweetsApp is an android app that allows a user to view home and mentions timelines, view user profiles with user timelines, as well as compose and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.
Time spent: 20 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
- 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 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 includes that user's timeline
- User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can view following / followers list through the profile
- Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
- When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
- User can "reply" to any tweet on their home timeline
- The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
- User can click on a tweet to be taken to a "detail view" of that tweet
- User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
- Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
- User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
- Usernames and hashtags are styled and clickable within tweets using clickable spans
The following bonus features are implemented:
- Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
- Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
- User can view their direct messages
The following additional features are implemented:
- Custom GSON deserializer for some objects
- Hide toolbar on scroll
- User can follow/unfollow other users
- User can play videos in the "detail view"
- User can go to help web through the side menu
- User can "reply" to any tweet (timeline, detail view)
- The user that wrote the original tweet is automatically "@" replied in compose
- If other users where mentioned in the original tweet, they are "@" replied too
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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- Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- Glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
- Butterknife - Bind Android views and callbacks to fields and methods
- Icepick - Android Instance State made easy
- GSON - A Java serialization/deserialization library that can convert Java Objects into JSON and back
- Parceler - Android Parcelables made easy through code generation
- RecyclerView Animators - An Android Animation library which easily add itemanimator to RecyclerView items
- Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java
- ActiveAndroid - Active record style SQLite persistence for Android
- VideoPlayerManager - Project designed to help controlling Android MediaPlayer class
Copyright 2016 Andrés Llerena
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