WF Twitter 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: X 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 view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination. Number of tweets is unlimited. However there are Twitter Api Rate Limits in place.
• [x]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

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page
• User can click a link within a tweet body on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
• User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
• 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.
• User can tap a tweet to open a detailed tweet view
• User can select "reply" button to respond to a tweet. Only work if the Tweet user reply does not tag anyone and is not a retweeted Tweet. If not this will become a normal Tweet post to timeline.
• Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"

The following bonus features are implemented:

• User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
• User can watch embedded video within the tweet
• Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
• Leverage RecyclerView as a replacement for the ListView and ArrayAdapter for all lists of tweets.
• Move the "Compose" action to a FloatingActionButton instead of on the AppBar.
• Replace Picasso with Glide for more efficient image rendering.

The following additional features are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality! *[x] user can tap the like button to like a tweet, tap again to unlike; *[x] user can tap the retweet button to retweet, tap again to unRetweet; *[x] user can tab the Name to see detail information of the account. *[x] user can sign out and login to another account.

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/_DG2hb6Lbzk GIF: http://i.giphy.com/l2QZYQ9PZLkZlpPEs.gif

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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

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

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in branch 'twitter2'

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 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:

• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable.
• Apply the popular Butterknife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
• 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!
• Shared element transition animation on post-lollipop android version.
• Profile view included that user's favorite tweets

Known bug:

• Media Tab in Profile View just a fake image.
• automatic add @usermention when reply, may not work outsite home timeline.

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/BNiy6QHQNa0

GIF created with LiceCap.

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.