Overview: Build a simple Twitter client that supports viewing a Twitter timeline and composing a new tweet.
Week 4 Includes all required user stories from Week 3 Twitter Client, plus
- 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 should include that user's timeline
- User can infinitely paginate any of these timelines (home, mentions, user) by scrolling to the bottom
Older User Stories:
The following user stories must be completed:
- User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
- User can view the tweets from their home timeline
- User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
- User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
- User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
- Optional: Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser (see autolink)
- User can compose 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
- Optional: User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet
The following advanced user stories are optional:
- Advanced: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)
- Advanced: User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets Tweets are persisted into sqlite and can be displayed from the local DB
- Advanced: User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
- Advanced: User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
- Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
- Bonus: User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
- Bonus: Compose activity is replaced with a modal overlay
Others
- Using ViewHolderPattern
- Using Parcelable
Walkthrough of user stories:
