Simple Tweet

Simple Tweet is an android app that allows a user to view their Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

User Stories

• 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

• 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
  • User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet on compose tweet page

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

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Open-source libraries used

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