SimpleTwitter is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline. The app utilizes Twitter REST API.

Time spent: 9 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can compose and post a new tweet
  • User can click a “Compose” icon in a floating action button on the bottom 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

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can pull down to refresh tweets timeline
• User is using "Twitter branded" colors and styles

The following bonus features are implemented:

• Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular Parceler library.
• Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with vector drawables where appropriate.

The following additional features are implemented:

• Compose tweet functionality is using a floating action button
• Links in tweets in list view are clickable and will launch the web browser.
• User can tap a button to toggle Night Mode theme.

The following required functionality is completed:

• 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

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

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

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