Project 2 - Twitter

Twitter is a basic twitter app to read and compose tweets using the Twitter API.

Time spent: 20 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following core features are completed:

A user should

• See an app icon in the home screen and a styled launch screen
• Be able to log in using their Twitter account
• See at latest the latest 20 tweets for a Twitter account in a Table View
• Be able to refresh data by pulling down on the Table View
• Be able to like and retweet from their Timeline view
• Only be able to access content if logged in
• Each tweet should display user profile picture, username, screen name, tweet text, timestamp, as well as buttons and labels for favorite, reply, and retweet counts.
• Compose and post a tweet from a Compose Tweet view, launched from a Compose button on the Nav bar.
• See Tweet details in a Details view
• App should render consistently all views and subviews in recent iPhone models and all orientations

The following stretch features are implemented:

A user could

• Be able to unlike or un-retweet by tapping a liked or retweeted Tweet button, respectively. (Doing so will decrement the count for each)
• See a character count when composing a Tweet (as well as a warning) (280 characters) (1 point)
• Load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client
• Click on a Profile image to reveal another user's profile page, including:
  • Header view: picture and tagline
  • Basic stats: #tweets, #following, #followers
• See embedded media in Tweets that contain images or videos
• Click on links that appear in Tweets
• Reply to any Tweet (2 points)
  • Replies should be prefixed with the username
  • The reply_id should be set when posting the tweet
• Switch between timeline, mentions, or profile view through a tab bar (3 points)
• Profile Page: pulling down the profile page should blur and resize the header image. (4 points)

The following additional features are implemented:

• A placeholder text for the compose view
• User timeline appears on their profile page
• User profile picture displays on compose tweet view
• Scroll View animation for loading more tweets

Please list two areas of the assignment you'd like to discuss further with your peers during the next class (examples include better ways to implement something, how to extend your app in certain ways, etc):

1. Better ways to implement infinite scrolling without having to make so many API calls.
2. Better way to embed pictures on the tableview cells.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video

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Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

• Encountered a problem in which images where taking too much space of the tweetcells.
• Encountered a problem in which the app was not retriving information from the user correctly, managed to solve it by taking a deeper look into the twitter API documentation and calling more endpoints from the api manager.

Credits

List an 3rd party libraries, icons, graphics, or other assets you used in your app.

• AFNetworking - networking task library
• DateTools - date formatter library

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