Homework 4! Codepath Twitter Redux Demo Client

TweetTweet App is a prototype of the Twitter app using the Twitter API.

Time spent: 12 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is completed:

• Hamburger menu

  • Dragging anywhere in the view should reveal the menu.
  • The menu should include links to your profile, the home timeline, and the mentions view.

• Profile page

  • Contains the user header view
  • Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers
  • Shows the user timeline

• Home Timeline

  • Tapping on a user image should bring up that user's profile page

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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This went way smoother for me in terms of understanding. I wish I got to play more with gesture for this assignment but I ended up doing more in the lab then for the homework which I was surprised about.

Homework 3! Codepath Twitter Demo Client

TweetTweet App is a prototype of the Twitter app using the Twitter API.

Time spent: 30 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
• User can view tweet with the user profile picture, username, tweet text, and timestamp
• Design the custom cell with the proper Auto Layout settings.
• 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.

The following optional features are implemented:

• Added images so that photo media shows up when included in a tweet. Also removes the original url link from the text link.
• Refactored tweet text to use NSMutableAttributedString and added styling for any user mentions or hashtags.
• Replace links in tweet text with their displayable text and added styling
• User can load more tweets once they reach the bottom of the feed using infinite loading similar to the actual Twitter client.
• User can pull to refresh only grabs the latest tweets the user has seen (not sure if this was originally required)
• 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.
• Also added styling so color changes as user retweet/unretweet and favorite/unfavorite.
• Retweet and favorite count are formatted based on the count (i.e. 15k on the timeline view vs 15,821 on the detailed expansion, etc).
• When composing, you should have a countdown in the upper right for the tweet limit. (I did lower left since that's in the current mobile app)
• Replies should be prefixed with the username and the reply_id should be set when posting the tweet,
• Made my own icons (compose icon and cross exit) that used global tint to get the twitter blue color.

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

I kept getting rate limited so I'm showing two walkthroughs. There were many updates and fixes since I recorded the one on the right but it's a good walkthrough and my later gifs don't have everything in it due to the rate limiting. :/

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This went smoother for me in terms of development. It took me quite some time to get through the OAuth videos and while I initually had a few misunderstandings about how to set up my accessToken, I feel like I learned iOS this week. Before, I sort of understood what was going on but this week, I felt more in control of what I was working on and I constantly refactored and improved as I worked.

I also initially had trouble with completions. My autocomplete has been pretty finicky in xcode so understanding the syntax and trying to make it work, soaked up more time than it should.

I did have some initial difficulty with how to understand hiding and showing the Name Retweeted at the top if a retweet in combination with AutoLayout. I ended up having to redo my layout with StackView multiple times, first solely with Autolayout, then Stack View and Autolayout, then finally with nested views inside of a Stack View.

I spent more time than anticipated trying to replace the original url with its readable format and then coloring it in. I ended up reordering some of the steps but I spent more time then I originally expected given that user_mentions and hashtags were a similar concept I finished before implementing this.

What's the best way to refactor common code in ios? How do I make helper methods that an object's init class can use? How do I create like a global helper class that has methods I'd like to use across the project?

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