[Android Bootcamp] Submitted the CodePath SimpleTwitterClient project.

[dperiwal]

Please review my SimpleTwitterClient app with the following features completed:

• User can sign in to Twitter using OAuth login
• User can view the tweets from their home timeline
  • User should be displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
  • User should be displayed the relative timestamp for each tweet "8m", "7h"
  • User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
  • Optional: Links in tweets are clickable and will launch the web browser (see autolink)
• User can compose 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
• Optional: User can see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet

The following advanced optional user stories have also been completed:

• Advanced: User can refresh tweets timeline by pulling down to refresh (i.e pull-to-refresh)
• Advanced: User can open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets
• Tweets are persisted into sqlite and can be displayed from the local DB
• This has been implemented but there are some bugs in using ActiveAndroid. Some records seem to be missing. Could not get time to investigate further.
• Advanced: User can tap a tweet to display a "detailed" view of that tweet
• Advanced: User can select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet
• Advanced: Improve the user interface and theme the app to feel "twitter branded"
• Bonus: User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view

-- Damodar Periwal
(Sunnyvale class)
/cc @nesquena @thecodepath

[codepathreview]

👍 Great work Damodar. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Your attention to UI/UX was impressive.
• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly, but the calculation seems wrong, since for a current tweet it says "In 7 mins"
• Good to see you refreshed the timeline after composing a new tweet
• Nice touch with the character count being displayed while the user composes a tweet by using TextWatcher
• Nice to see you used a SwipeRefreshLayout library for easy timeline refreshes
• Good to see you added ActiveAndroid annotations to the models
• Great job embedding media image in tweet object
• Good job getting retweet and favorite counts correctly displayed
• Consider adding progress bars to your app whenever a network request goes out

Here's a detailed Project 3 Feedback Guide here which covers the most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this assignment. Hopefully by now you feel pretty comfortable with all the major pieces to basic Android apps (Views, Controllers, ActionBar, Navigation, Models, Authentication, API Communication, Persistence, et al) and see how they all fit together. We are close now to a turning point in the course where you should be hitting a "critical mass" towards your knowledge of Android.

[dperiwal]

Thanks for the review and the feedback. I have incorporated progress bar
and made a few formatting improvements.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:47 AM, CodePath Reviewers <notifications@github.com

wrote:

[image: 👍] Great work Damodar. A few notes after checking out the code:

• Your attention to UI/UX was impressive.
• Good to see you were able to format the timestamp cleanly, but the
  calculation seems wrong, since for a current tweet it says "In 7 mins"
• Good to see you refreshed the timeline after composing a new tweet
• Nice touch with the character count being displayed while the user
  composes a tweet by using TextWatcher
• Nice to see you used a SwipeRefreshLayout library for easy timeline
  refreshes
• Good to see you added ActiveAndroid annotations to the models
• Great job embedding media image in tweet object
• Good job getting retweet and favorite counts correctly displayed
• Consider adding progress bars
  http://guides.codepath.com/android/Handling-ProgressBars#actionbar-progress-bar
  to your app whenever a network request goes out

Here's a detailed Project 3 Feedback Guide here
https://gist.github.com/nesquena/a41220c54c9550f69599 which covers the
most common issues with this submitted project. Read through the feedback
guide point-by-point to determine how you could improve your submission.

Let us know if you have any other thoughts or questions about this
assignment. Hopefully by now you feel pretty comfortable with all the major
pieces to basic Android apps (Views, Controllers, ActionBar, Navigation,
Models, Authentication, API Communication, Persistence, et al) and see how
they all fit together. We are close now to a turning point in the course
where you should be hitting a "critical mass" towards your knowledge of
Android.

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