A simpler Twitter client for iOS
Time spent week 1: 33 hours
Time spent week 2: 20 hours
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can sign in using OAuth login flow
- The current signed in user will be persisted across restarts
- User can view last 20 tweets from their home timeline
- In the home timeline, user can view tweet with the user profile picture, username, tweet text, and timestamp.
- User can pull to refresh
- User can compose a new tweet by tapping on a compose button.
- User can tap on a tweet to view it, with controls to retweet, favorite, and reply.
- Hamburger menu reveals by dragging anywhere on the screen.
- Hamburger reveals links to several timelines
- Profile page with header view, user stats, and user's tweets
- Tap on any profile pic in the home timeline to go to that user's profile page
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.
- Retweeting and favoriting should increment the retweet and favorite count.
- User should be able to unretweet and unfavorite and should decrement the retweet and favorite count.
- Replies should be prefixed with the username and the reply_id should be set when posting the tweet.
- User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client.
- Fancy profile page effects like blurring and resizing the background banner image when panning
- Allow user to switch between accounts
- Allow user to add an account, or swipe to delete an account
The following additional features are implemented:
- Timestamps are displayed with relative date formatting
- Label retweets and display the original tweet as primary in a RT, in both Home timeline and Detail screen
- Button to easily return to the top
- Compose page has placeholder text to encourage text entry
- Countdown label turns red within 20 characters of limit
- Enable buttons in timeline for each tweet cell to retweet, favorite, and reply.
- Tap on any profile pic in any timeline to go to that user's profile page
- Add "Follow" button to profile page views of users who are not the logged in user
- If user is already following the profile being displayed, change "Follow" button appearance and allow user to unfollow the profile
- Make "jump to top" button slowing appear (alpha 0 -> 1) as you scroll down the timeline
- Display hyperlinks, mentions, and hashtags in blue
- Display media in a tweet detail view
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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Much of the time during this second week was spent on refactoring to make for more efficient code (reduce duplication, increase encapsulation, make code more readable). I implemented each feature 2-3 times because I would implement it naively or inefficiently first just to get it working, then I would refactor it to reuse existing code or existing viewcontrollers and views.
The foundation for displaying entities is in there, but I haven't completed the translation of entities into hyperlinks or rich media display yet. This will be on the backlog for a post-bootcamp sprint.
Credits:
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Compose action icon from [https://iconmonstr.com/edit-4/]
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Reply action icon from [https://iconmonstr.com/speech-bubble-16/]
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Retweet action icon from [https://iconmonstr.com/retweet-1/]
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Favorite action icon from [https://iconmonstr.com/favorite-4/]
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Favorited icon from [https://iconmonstr.com/favorite-3/]
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Cancel action icon from [https://iconmonstr.com/x-mark-9/]
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 Angela Yu
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