Chapter 10. Using Open Source Tools and Other Goodies

The world of mobile software moves incredibly fast, and it can sometimes seem like a daunting undertaking to stay abreast of all the latest developments. While this book is intended as an introduction to integrating Facebook and Twitter into your application, there are a host of related technologies that can make life easier or reveal how other applications accomplish certain tasks. In addition, there are some cross-posting libraries available that can save you the trouble of integrating directly with the Facebook and Twitter SDKs. These topics are explored in this chapter.

This chapter also includes a discussion of data and trends that are available from Twitter. In addition to its standard ...

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