Integrating Twitter

Twitter provides a very different social platform to Facebook, and people use it very differently as well. It is, however, another powerful tool in our arsenal, and like Facebook, it offers unparalleled promotional opportunities.

Twitter employs a powerful framework integration tool called Fabric that allows developers to integrate Twitter functionality into our applications. Fabric can be downloaded directly into Android Studio as a plugin. Before downloading the plugin, it is necessary to register with Fabric. This is free and can be found at fabric.io.

Once registered, open Android Studio and then select Browse Repositories... from Settings > Plugins:

Once installed, Fabric has walk-through tutorial system and requires no further instruction. However it is not necessary to use this framework at all if all your app needs to do is post single tweets as this can be achieved with the vanilla SDK.

Sending tweets

Fabric is a sophisticated tool and, thanks to its inbuilt...