Sams Teach Yourself the Twitter API in 24 Hours

Hour 21. Getting Started in Twitter Android Application

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Creating an AVD

• Using the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in for Eclipse

• Building your first Hello Android application

• Using Eclipse and Android Emulator

• Getting Twitter Java library and OAuth Java library

Introducing Android

We have spent the last 20 hours learning about the Twitter API and how to employ it using the LAMP stack. Now we are going spend the last 4 hours learning how to set up a Twitter library for mobile devices, in our case, Android and iOS4. Unless you decided to skip ahead directly to this hour, you should already be comfortable with the various API calls and how to employ them, so we will instead focus on simply getting ...