TUTORIAL 15
Raising (Something Like) a
Tweet
In this tutorial, we will experiment with the Apache HttpClient library in
Android, using it to post a status update to our identi.ca account. The
identi.ca service, powered by StatusNet, is a microblogging service similar
to Twitter. In fact, this book used to profile a Twitter client. However,
Twitter's new authentication models, while good for Twitter, are a bit too
complicated to implement for this book.
Over the course of several tutorials, we will focus on microblog-related
functionality in an application we will call Patchy (which used to be short
for "Patchy: Another Twitter Client? Heck, Yeah!").
Step-By-Step Instructions.........................................................................
This tutorial starts a new application, independent from the LunchList
application developed in the preceding tutorials.
Step #1: Set Up an Identi.ca Account.................................................
Twitter is a micro-blogging service that you may have heard about. On the
other hand, you may not have an identi.ca account.