I often found my friends' tweets buried by large amount of news account or other active users. Twitter's timeline design is a classic example of information overload. Although some accounts post a lot of useful information, e.g. Hacker News. But besides Hacker News, I also want to know what my friends are talking about. The thing is, my friends don't tweet a lot. They usually keep quiet for a while and tweet once in random. It's hard to discover those tweets.
That's why I created this app called Avetuc.
This project is no master piece. I had many problems while making it. It serves more like a learning experience than a valid app (although I have gone ahead submitted to App Store :] ). It helped me to understand memory management, reactive programing, and most interesting language - Swift. It still has hidden bugs and missing features. So the journey of learning was never ended.
First of all you should install dependencies.
pod installThen you need a Secrets.swift file under ./Avetuc directory that looks like:
import Foundation
let TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
let TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
let TWITTER_OAUTH_CALLBACK = "zzzz://zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"Of cause, you should have already registered an app with Twitter app manager.
When all done, open workspace and start hacking.
My most proud piece is this thing called River. It's a manager of streams (that's why I named it River) and event dispatcher. It borrowed concepts from Flux and used RxSwift as pillar store. It doesn't look very clear for now, but I plan to extract it into a separate project and make it more useful.
I record bugs and future features in PivotalTracker https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1356996. But issues and PRs on Github are still welcome!