molinarodri / simpletweet

A simple Twitter client that supports viewing a Twitter timeline

Project 2 - Simple Tweet

Simple Tweet is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

User Stories

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
• User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
• User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

simpletweet's Issues

Project Feedback!

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Looks like you did not link your gif walkthrough for this assignment or it is not rendering (animating) properly when viewed in the README 😬. The gif helps us to make sure we don't miss any required or optional stories you have completed.

Render your gif:
Once you have uploaded your gif to a site like imgur you can render it using the following syntax.

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