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• BirdHouse: Twitter OAuth for Android & iPhone

  To anyone would like to use Twitter or is having trouble using a Twitter script,

  Cross-Platform Support & Up-to-Date: BirdHouse has been tested on Android with Linux and Mac as well as on iPhone, both using the latest Titanium Mobile SDK (1.6.2). It has been tested by others and is being maintained to fix any issues.

  Go here for the code and go here for the test app.

  About: The script can send tweets, retrieve tweets, authenticate, "deauthenticate", and send custom API calls to Twitter. For sending tweets, a custom UI popup appears. It is designed to work similar to Titanium's Facebook module.

  David Riccitelli's oauth-adapter doesn't work on Android, but some have forked it to work, such as Ketan Majmudar (go here for his code), I have tried other OAuth scripts as well, but I have been more successful with BirdHouse.

• My app Tweeku is a 1.0 app that uses Twitter OAuth (it's in the App Store). I still have a clumsy requirement that the user manually key the pin # twitter returns, which I hope to workaround with some improved access to webView properties in upcoming Titanium release (hint, hint).

  Otherwise, it's a pretty smooth experience. I would be willing to share my code. It's based on the Javascript OAuth library that's publicly available.

  greg.

• When you say the 'pin' - are you talking about a loooong one? Or a short pin code?

  If it's the short one, you should really let/force the user to type this in, as this is kind of why oAuth exists, to provide greater security.

  Having your app automatically do this might not be the best thing to do.

  Love to see your code on this though :)

  by the way, if you want to get the html from a remote webView use a listener:

  eg: if your webView is called 'webwindow' :

      webwindow.addEventListener('load',function(e)
      {
              Ti.API.info("webview loaded e.url : "+e.url);
              Ti.API.info("webview html: "+webwindow.html);
  
      });
  

  then you could parse out the info you're looking for ;)

  hth
  Kosso

• I would be interested in seeing your OAuth implementation. Thanks!

• Ok, something is broken here. Since Oauth depends on a redirect to the callback URL, things start breaking down when the redirect happens. My called back (app://Resources/file.html) url is loading, however, many things seem to fail (in iphone emulator at least) in that context. Ti….anything gives nothing. Ti.API.info() does nothing, fireEvent does nothing. If I directly load the url in the webview, those calls work, but if they're loaded from a redirect, crickets. I even tried catching the "load" event. The event gets caught, but e.url value stays persistant to the "authorize" URL I called rather than the URL that the server redirected my webview to (oauth_callback). The redirect actually happens, but the e.url value caught in the load event is not properly changing. I hope 1.3 has this fixed.

  Greg, I am using the same Javascript OAuth library you are using. Are you using the Iphone emulator? How are you getting the oauth_verifier that is sent in the redirected url that is passed in oauth_callback?

  Gabriel.

• 10 lines of code with the OAuth Adapter:

  
  var oAuthAdapter = new OAuthAdapter(
          '<your-consumer-secret>',
          '<your-consumer-key>',
          'HMAC-SHA1');
  
  
  // load the access token for the service (if previously saved)
  oAuthAdapter.loadAccessToken('twitter');
  
  oAuthAdapter.send('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json', [['status', 'hey @ziodave, I successfully tested the #oauth adapter with #twitter and @appcelerator #titanium!']], 'Twitter', 'Published.', 'Not published.');
  
  // if the client is not authorized, ask for authorization. the previous tweet will be sent automatically after authorization
  if (oAuthAdapter.isAuthorized() == false)
   {
      // this function will be called as soon as the application is authorized
      var receivePin = function() {
          // get the access token with the provided pin/oauth_verifier
          oAuthAdapter.getAccessToken('http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token');
          // save the access token
          oAuthAdapter.saveAccessToken('twitter');
      };
  
      // show the authorization UI and call back the receive PIN function
      oAuthAdapter.showAuthorizeUI('http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=' +
          oAuthAdapter.getRequestToken('http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token', [['oauth_callback', 'oob']]),
          receivePin, PinFinder.twitter);
  }
  

• I was struggling with Twitter til today.

  There is a really good answer on this post. check it out
  http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/119125/fyi-twitter-login-oauth