Android™

Twitter OAuth -- Tweet to Your Own Account

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Demonstrates how to send a tweet (status update) to your own Twitter account using pre-known credentials, which includes:

1. Consumer Key
2. Consumer Secret
3. Access Token
4. Token Secret

Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    http.put_OAuth1(true);
    http.put_OAuthVerifier("");
    http.put_OAuthConsumerKey("my-consumer-key");
    http.put_OAuthConsumerSecret("my-consumer-secret");
    http.put_OAuthToken("my-access-token");
    http.put_OAuthTokenSecret("my-token-secret");

    // Send the same status update as shown in this example:
    // https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update

    // IMPORTANT: Make sure this app has read/write access.  
    // Otherwise it cannot post an update (i.e. tweet) to the Twitter account.

    CkHttpRequest req = new CkHttpRequest();
    req.AddParam("status","Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk");

    req.put_HttpVerb("POST");
    req.put_ContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

    CkHttpResponse resp = new CkHttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",req,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    if (resp.get_StatusCode() == 200) {
        // Display the JSON response.
        Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());
        }
    else {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}