Project 4 - Twii.ter 2.0

Twii.ter 2.0 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: 35 hours spent in total

User Stories

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
• User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results
• Usernames and hashtags are styled and clickable within tweets using clickable spans

The following bonus features are implemented:

• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• Leverages the data binding support module to bind data into layout templates.
• On the profile screen, leverage the CoordinatorLayout to apply scrolling behavior as the user scrolls through the profile timeline.
• 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!
• [x]Added item decorator in RecyclerView

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/DFGYknc.gifv)

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

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

License

Copyright [2018] [Jephte Colin]

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

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