Been working on a twitter share using the ACTION_SEND intent rather than the more cumbersome Twitter APIs. [css]
// Call find twitter client to get the twitter clients to post to
Intent shareIntent = findTwitterClient();
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "test");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share"));
findTwitterClient will call this method, which will search the phone for various Twitter clients, and launch the tweet through the first client it successfully matches:
public Intent findTwitterClient() {
final String[] twitterApps = {
// package // name - nb installs (thousands)
"com.twitter.android", // official - 10 000
"com.twidroid", // twidroid - 5 000
"com.handmark.tweetcaster", // Tweecaster - 5 000
"com.thedeck.android" }; // TweetDeck - 5 000 };
Intent tweetIntent = new Intent();
tweetIntent.setType("text/plain");
final PackageManager packageManager = getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> list = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(
tweetIntent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
for (int i = 0; i < twitterApps.length; i++) {
for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : list) {
String p = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
if (p != null && p.startsWith(twitterApps[i])) {
tweetIntent.setPackage(p);
return tweetIntent;
}
}
}
return null;
}