I'm building an app that will allow the user to send a status update to twitter about something they have done in the app.
What is the easiest way to authenticate the user in the settings and have the app update their status when they tap a button?
Any help/ sample code is greatly appreciated.
-GVG
PHP/ iPhone SDK Developer
http://gilesvangruisen.com/
I think a lot of people use the source code from Matt Gemmell:
http://mattgemmell.com/2008/02/22/mgtwitterengine-twitter-from-cocoa
That should be a good starting point.
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I'm pretty sure, thats not possible.
The moment you add support for Achievements or Leader-boards to your app and that app is run on iOS 6+ "Challenges" will be available to the user.
Note, challenges are not to be confused with multiplayer, to support challenges under iOS 6 you don't need to change anything in your code ;)
For quite a while now, I've been trying to find a good way to simply post updates/photos to a user's twitter account via my iOS app. I've looked at ShareKit, but I really need to be able to design my own UI. Also, I've taken a look at MGTwitterEngine, but am unsure as how to implement it. Is there a "right" way to go about posting updates to Twitter with a custom UI on iOS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Given Apple's TWTweetRequest object, calls made to the Twitter service can now be orchestrated right through iOS without the need for an external framework or engine. Just look at the Twitter developer docs and make the calls you need, specifying the correct information in a dictionary for the process to complete successfully.
I am writing an app for iphone to go along site my website which tracks the location of the user. Can anyone give me any pointers on where to begin. I am very good with mysql and php etc but I am a novice with iphone apps.
The coordinates from the app need to be able to upload to my api which I have set up.
Thanks
What you probably want to do is create a simple app that can run in the background.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/BackgroundExecution/BackgroundExecution.html
During background execution you cannot do anything really too much with the network so I suggest logging it using CoreData and then on resume/startup to send an HTTP post to a PHP page that logs it into your DB?
You might want to check out the HTML5 geolocation API. Also reading "Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" is recommended. I read the same book for Android and was very pleased. Building your app in HTML5/CSS/JS will also mean that it will probably work on other platforms.
Does anyone know of open source code available to implement a popup to the user after so many days or so many instances of the app to prompt the user to rate and review the app on the app store?
I've seen this already with a few apps I own.
Thanks in advance for your help.
This isn't ideal, i personally find it abit ugly, but it's easy to implement and reactivates when a new version is released and more importantly works.
http://arashpayan.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/07/presenting-appirater/
I'm just playing around with the iPhone SDK and wanted to make a really simple Twitter app but I'm not sure how to do this. I just need to fetch the last 5 updates from a user just through their username. For instance, if I type in "mashable", I should get mashable's 5 latest updates. How would I do that?
Thanks so much ahead of time!
Last I checked, MGTwitterEngine was the gold-standard free library to drop in for Twitter access via Objective-C.
http://mattgemmell.com/2008/02/22/mgtwitterengine-twitter-from-cocoa
Did you support twitter login yet? If yes, you just need to call the Rest API using some NSUrlConnection