TUTORIAL 16
Opening a JAR
Writing our own identi.ca API seems silly, considering that there are so
many of them available as open source, including three for Java. In this
tutorial, we will replace our HttpClient with JTwitter, an LGPL
Twitter/identi.ca API that works with Android.
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 15-HttpClient edition of Patchy to use as a starting point.
Step #1: Obtain the JTwitter JAR.......................................................
The current official JTwitter distribution appears to drop support for
identi.ca. Hence, this tutorial will have you use a patched version of an
identi.ca-compatible JTwitter distribution.
Download the modified JTwitter JAR. Then, put the JAR in the Patchy/libs/
directory, so it is available to your application. Or, you can obtain the same
modified JTwitter JAR from the tutorial results.