| A couple of months ago, I published a post entitled A 30 minute guide to integrating Twitter in your Android application.. The post presented a sample Android application to integrate Twitter. Using the signpost library, the user was able to authorize our application to send tweets on his/her behalf. It seems that everyone is migrating to Oauth 2.0, but Twitter is still stuck at OAuth 1.0. Nevertheless, I still wanted to update the sample we did a couple of months ago for 3 reasons :
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Introduction
As mentioned in the Facebook developer docs, test users can only be created using a call to the Graph API.
As described in my previous Facebook article, a dedicated webpage was available at the time to create test users, however, that page has been brought offline.
You can create a test user associated with a particular app using the Graph API with your app access token.
https://graph.facebook.com/APP_ID/accounts/test-users?
installed=true
&permissions=read_stream
&method=post
&access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN
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However, before we’ll be able call this API, we first need to retrieve an Access Token for our application.
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| Today we’ll be looking at the Google APIs Client Library for Java. The API is provided by Google, and is a flexible, efficient, and powerful Java client library for accessing any HTTP-based API’s on the web. According to Google, it is the recommended library for accessing Google API’s based on REST or JSON-RPC. One of the nice things about this library is that it fully supports the Android environment out of the box. So we’ll focus on those features in this article. |
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To avoid confusion, Google offers the following APIs (the first one being the topic of this post, and compatible with the Android platform) :
Unfortunately, there are no samples available that perform the OAuth dance in Android using this library, so I thought I’d write one myself. The code for this article can be found in the AndroidOauthGoogleApiJavaClient repository
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Introduction
The goal of this article is to get Facebook integration up & running from your Android app in 30 minutes. The guide will show you how to
- setup a Faceook test account
- register a Facebook application
- authenticate the user in your Android application.
- have the user update his Facebook wall from your Android application.
This guide is accompanied by a sample application that’s available in Github in the AndroidFacebookSample repository. To import this project in Eclipse, I suggest using the EGit plugin that can be installed via the Main P2 Repository located at http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates. |
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Before running this project, make sure you change the com.ecs.android.facebook.Sample.AndroidFacebookSample file to include your Facebook API key (see subsequent section).
Once you have sample application up & running, you can copy the relevant classes into your projects to have Facebook up & running from your Android application.
First things first … In order to integrate with Facebook, you need 2 things :
- A Facebook test account, used in our Android application to login to Facebook and make status updates.
- A Facebook application, used to inform the user in your Android application that this application is requesting you to login to Facebook.
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Important note : As an update to this article, I’ve prepared a new post entitled Improved Twitter OAuth for Android focussing on a more simple Oauth / Android experience, and using the Google APIs Client Library for Java.
The goal of this article is to get twitter integration up & running from your Android app in 30 minutes. The guide will show you how to
- setup a twitter test account
- register a twitter application
- authenticate the user in your Android application.
- have the user send tweets from your Android application.
This guide is accompanied by a sample application that’s available in Github in the AndroidTwitterSample repository. To import this project in Eclipse, I suggest using the EGit plugin that can be installed via the Main P2 Repository located at http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates.
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Before running this project, make sure you change the com.ecs.android.sample.twitter.Constants file to include your consumer key and consumer secret. (see subsequent section).
Once you have sample application up & running, you can copy the relevant classes into your projects to have Twitter up & running.
Twitter uses the OAuth protocol to authorize your android application to send tweets on behalf of the end-user. The end-user will need to authenticate against Twitter (meaning that your application will not capture the twitter username / password). Once the user has authorized access, you’ll be able to send tweets on behalf of the user. We’ll use signpost library to handle the OAuth communication, and the Twitter4J library to handle the Twitter specific interactions (sending tweets).
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| After having an overview of OAuth, we can now get a change to watch the OAuth dance unfold before us with a great site called the OAuth Playground where we can simulate all these OAuth requests. The site allows us to see the HTTP requests behind the OAuth workflow we discussed in the previous section. For the sake of this example, try to think of the OAuth playground as a rich application where you can view your Google contacts. (Obviously, OPlayground is a technical oriented site, allowing you to see the different request on the HTTP level, but the same principles apply. |
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