SimpleTwitterClient is an android app that allows a user to view home and mentions timelines, view user profiles with user timelines, as well as compose and post a new tweet. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 8 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is completed:

• The app includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client
• 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 navigate to view their own profile
  • User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
• User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
• User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
• Profile view includes that user's timeline
• User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can view following / followers list through the profile
• Implements robust error handling, check if internet is available, handle error cases, network failures
• When a network request is sent, user sees an indeterminate progress indicator
• 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
• User can take favorite (and unfavorite) or retweet actions on a tweet
• Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel twitter branded
• User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results

The following bonus features are implemented:

• User can view their direct messages (or send new ones)

The following additional features are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Basic functionality:

Upgrade with mentions tab:

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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

• scribe-java - Simple OAuth library for handling the authentication flow.
• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• codepath-oauth - Custom-built library for managing OAuth authentication and signing of requests
• Picasso - Used for async image loading and caching them in memory and on disk.
• ActiveAndroid - Simple ORM for persisting a local SQLite database on the Android device
• LinkifiedTextView - Add links to TextViews that work in ListViews

Copyright 2015 Nikhil Bhargava

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