TUTORIAL 17
Listening To Your Friends
In this tutorial, we will start watching our friends' timelines, polling them
for updates in a background thread managed by a service.
Step-By-Step Instructions.........................................................................
First, you need to have completed the previous tutorial. If you are
beginning the tutorials here, or if you wish to not use your existing work,
you can download a ZIP file with all of the tutorial results, and you can copy
the 16-JAR edition of Patchy to use as a starting point.
Step #1: Create a Service Stub............................................................
Since we are creating a service to monitor information related to our
account, let us create a service named PostMonitor (so named because
identi.ca supports the original Twitter API). Create a file named
Patchy/src/apt/tutorial/two/PostMonitor.java with the following content:
package apt.tutorial.two;import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.IBinder;public class PostMonitor extends Service {
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();