Project 2 - Twitter Lite

Twitter Lite (Simple Tweet) is an android app that allows a user to tweet, view and interract his/her Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Twitter Lite - Part/ Update 2

Time spent: 4.5 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

• 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
  • Newly created tweet should be manually inserted into the timeline and not rely on a full refresh

The following optional features are implemented:

• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• 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.

The following additional features are implemented:

• N/A

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

N/A

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2020] [Philip Boakye]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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Twitter Lite - Part 1

Time spent: 7.5 hours spent in total

User Stories

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 refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination

The following additional features are implemented:

• N/A

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Having the time stamps aligned was a challenge at first but finally rectified it.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2020] [Philip Boakye]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.