Harpy for Twitter like site

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Hello,
I want to learn android programing, I want to try to use Harpy as a front end of a difference social network, maybe for a mastodon instance, etc. Just to practice.

Do you have any recommendation where to start from?
Is the app decoupled from Twitter API?

A thing or two about the architecture of the projet would help a lot.

Kind regards,
Elijah

[robertodoering]

Hey,
first thing you should know that harpy is built using Flutter and is not a native Android app.

If you want to decouple the app from Twitter, you would have to go through each service and talk to whatever host you are interested in, instead of the Twitter API. Afterwards you can either map your data to the existing models that are used in harpy (TweetData, UserData, etc.) or replace them with your new models.

flutter_bloc is used to manage state,
get_it is used as a service locator and
dart_twitter_api is a package that I wrote to wrap the Twitter API and map its responses into dart models.

If you want to understand the architecture in harpy better it's best to make yourself familiar with flutter_bloc and state management in Flutter beforehand.
If you find anything you don't understand or have any question related to harpy and its architecture feel free to ask, I'm always happy to help.

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Thanks a lot