Using SLComposeViewController

The easiest way to post a new message to Twitter or Facebook is to use the SLComposeViewController. It requires no fiddling with permissions and, if the user has not set up an account, it prompts them to configure one. The downside of SLComposeViewController is that there is no way to customize the appearance of the view that the user is presented with, as shown in Figure 15.4.

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Figure 15.4 Posting a new tweet with an image using the SLComposeViewController.

Before anything can be done with SLComposeViewController, the Social.framework must first be imported into the project. In addition, the header file "Social/Social.h" ...

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