jingidy / twi-light

Codepath Simple Twitter Client

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Codepath Project: Simple Twitter Client

Time taken:

Part 1

4 hours 50 minutes

Part 2

17 hours

Completed User Stories

Required

Part 1

• User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
• User can view the tweets from their home timeline
  • User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
  • User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
  • User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
• User can compose 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

Part 2

• 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 pagination)
• User can navigate to view their own profile and see:
  • Picture
  • Tagline
  • # of followers
  • # of following
  • Tweets
• User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile and see the same categories as the user profile

Optional

Part 1

• Additional UI
  • Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
  • User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
• User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
• Additional Actions
  • User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh
• Persistence
  • User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets. Tweets are persisted into SQLite and acan be displayed from the local DB
• UI Improvements
  • Compose activity is placed with a modal overlay

Part 2

• Additional UI
  • User can view followers/following through the profile
  • When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
• Additional Actions
  • 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, and take the following actions
    • Favorite
    • Unfavorite
    • Retweet
  • User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
  • User can view their direct messages
    • User can send new direct messages
• Robustness
  • Implement tabs in a gingerbread-compatible approach
  • Robust error handling
    • Check if internet is available
    • Handle error cases
    • Handle network failures
• UI Improvements
  • Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded" (or not)

Walkthrough of All User Stories

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