Our First Project
Our project for the rest of the book is a simple Twitter client, which will allow the user to post messages to Twitter, view his or her timeline, and drill down for more details on a tweet or the person who posted it. This lets us develop features that are genuinely valuable to real users, and exposes us to practical concerns about getting data from the Internet and presenting it in the iOS user interface. Not to mention, Twitter clients are among the most-used and most-loved iOS apps, and have been a hotbed of UI innovation: the familiar “pull to refresh” gesture first appeared in “Tweetie,” which later became the official Twitter app for iOS.
As we develop the app, you can use your existing Twitter account or, if you don’t ...
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