Name of your app is a basic twitter app to read and compose tweets the Twitter API.
Time spent: 8 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can sign in using OAuth login flow
- User can view last 20 tweets from their home timeline
- The current signed in user will be persisted across restarts
- In the home timeline, user can view tweet with the user profile picture, username, tweet text, and timestamp.
- Retweeting and favoriting should increment the retweet and favorite count.
The following optional features are implemented:
- User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client.
- User should be able to unretweet and unfavorite and should decrement the retweet and favorite count.
- User can pull to refresh.
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
- Showing the image associated with a tweet in the tweet cell.
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):
- Best way to update the favorite/retweet count. Should update it automatically when the user pushes the button? Or wait for a success from the Twitter API to confirm?
- How to get other features. Like highlighting the @ mentions of other users in the tweet cell so when a user taps that, it'll take them to the twitter user that they tapped.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
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Time spent: ~20 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- Tweet Details Page: User can tap on a tweet to view it, with controls to retweet, favorite, and reply.
- Profile page:
- Contains the user header view
- Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers
- Home Timeline: Tapping on a user image should bring up that user's profile page
- Compose Page: User can compose a new tweet by tapping on a compose button.
The following optional features are implemented:
- When composing, you should have a countdown in the upper right for the tweet limit.
- After creating a new tweet, a user should be able to view it in the timeline immediately without refetching the timeline from the network.
- Profile Page
- Implement the paging view for the user description.
- As the paging view moves, increase the opacity of the background screen. See the actual Twitter app for this effect
- Pulling down the profile page should blur and resize the header image.
- Account switching
- Long press on tab bar to bring up Account view with animation
- Tap account to switch to
- Include a plus button to Add an Account
- Swipe to delete an account
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
- Showing the image associated with a tweet in the tweet cell.
- User can follow/unfollow users from their profiles.
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):
- How to encode URLs correctly. I.e. putting a comma in a tweet results in a bad POST request. <-- Fixed this.
- How to cache tweets efficiently since Twitter has a GET limit every 15 minutes.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Here's a video of implemented user stories that plays better than the gif!
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- Kept running out of requests from Twitter.
Copyright 2017 Nicholas McDonald
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.