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Hey Laura,

👍 nice work. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly
• Good to see you added the tweet to the home timeline after you posted new on compose
• Nice touch with the character count being displayed while the user composes a tweet
• Good to see you added ActiveAndroid annotations to the models
• In the future, definitely consider additional polish for the UI by reviewing the cloning a screen tutorial and Q&A and the drawables guide.
• For the sliding tabs, try styling the tabs to customize their appearance.
• Good to see you properly communicated the user to the user timeline fragment from the profile activity.
• Glad to see you properly hooked up each of the different timelines to infinitely paginate.
• Remember that any non-view related work should be in a background thread or service. See this guide on AsyncTask or this guide on background services.
• This was the first assignment where we were intended to use fragments heavily to modularize our views and logic into re-usable components. Be sure to review how fragments fit into the application architecture as well as the proper guidelines for communicating with fragments. You might also want to refer to this guide for adding a side navigation drawer using fragments.
• This assignment was intended to act as a playground for trying different types of animations. Be sure to take a closer look at the different animation types and how they each work.
• Modern Android app development is largely about building beautiful and delightful user experiences. Be sure to check out the material design guide, the design support library for further details. In addition, you will continue to improve your understanding of building polished UIs as well as the Android design guidelines as you continue development.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this assignment. Hopefully through completing this 3rd project, you now feel pretty comfortable with all the fundamentals of Android apps (Views, Activities, ActionBar, Navigation, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Persistence, et al) and can see how they all fit together.

With that in mind, there is a vast set of knowledge in becoming an Android expert that will take you a long time to digest more deeply. Refer to the extended topics list for a list of topics you will need to gain further understanding of in the near future.