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.
Time spent: 7 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 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"
- User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Time spent: 8 hours spent in total
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 to launch the web browser
- 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.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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