maodd/codepath_twitter_redux

Twitter iOS App for CodePath (Redux)

This is part 2 of the iOS demo Twitter application. You can read tweets from people you follow, submit your own tweets, and view user's profiles.

Time spent: ~15 hours spent in total

Completed user stories:

• Dragging anywhere in the view should reveal the menu.
• The menu should include links to your profile, the home timeline, and the mentions view.
• The menu can look similar to the LinkedIn menu below or feel free to take liberty with the UI.
• Contains the user header view
• Contains a section with the users basic stats: # tweets, # following, # followers
• Tapping on a user image should bring up that user's profile page
• Optional: Pulling down the profile page should blur and resize the header image.
• Optional: Implement the paging view for the user description.
• Optional: As the paging view moves, increase the opacity of the background screen.
• Optional: Long press on tab bar to bring up Account view with animation
• Optional: Tap account to switch to
• Optional: Include a plus button to Add an Account
• Optional: Swipe to delete an account

Notes:

I found the profile header blurring to be an interesting problem, and spent most of my extra time playing with the CoreImage and NSOperationQueue APIs. I ended up using GPUImage and caching a series of blurred images in a background queue to make the interaction smooth.

Walkthrough of all user stories: