philripd / simpletweet

Twitter client for CodePath

Project 2 - SimpleTweet

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

I followed CodePath's YouTube video playlists for part 1 and part 2 to develop this project.

This readme is based on CodePath's templates for part 1 and part 2.

SimpleTweet Part 2

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required 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

The following optional features are implemented:

• User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles
• User can click links in tweets launch the web browser
• User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
• The "Compose" action is moved to a FloatingActionButton instead of on the AppBar
• Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets. Persisted in SQLite tweets are refreshed on every application launch. While "live data" is displayed when app can get it from Twitter API, it is also saved for use in offline mode.
• When a user leaves the compose view without publishing and there is existing text, prompt to save or delete the draft. If saved, the draft should then be persisted to disk and can later be resumed from the compose view.
• 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.

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 Part 1

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

User Stories

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 refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
• Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
• Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser
• User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
• User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
• User can watch embedded video within the tweet
• User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
• On the Twitter timeline, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior that hides / shows the toolbar.

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

License

Copyright 2021 Phillip Dang

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

simpletweet's Issues

Project Feedback!

👍 Congrats on completing the third project!

I have provided a detailed Project 3 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this assignment. Hopefully by now you feel pretty comfortable with all the major pieces to basic Android apps (Views, Controllers, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Preferences, ActionBar, et al) and see how they all fit together.

Project Feedback!

👍 Congrats on completing the fourth project!

I have provided a detailed Project 4 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this assignment. Hopefully by now you feel pretty comfortable with all the major pieces to basic Android apps (Views, Controllers, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Preferences, ActionBar, et al) and see how they all fit together.