How to integrate twitter on any device

Social Media
#1

What I’m going to do is use the social api if it’s available.  If not, then use functionality similar to the “tweet button”.  Open up a new browser on the device prepopulated with a tweet field.  If the user is not logged into twitter on their browser then the page also has login fields on it.

function showTwitterPopup(event)
    if event ~= nil and event.phase ~= “ended” then return true end
  
    local isTwitterAvailable = native.canShowPopup( “social”, “twitter” )    
    if isTwitterAvailable then
    
        local message = “I just scored " …
            tostring(playerWicketsLost) … “/” … tostring(playerRunsScored) …
            " and " … getMatchSummaryWonByText(true) … " against " … computerTeamAbbrev …
            " in The Best Cricket Game Ever.  Can you beat my score?”
            
        local options = {
           service = “twitter”,
           message = message,
           url = “http://bestcricketgame.com”,
           listener = twitterListener
        }
        
        native.showPopup(“social”, options)
    else
        local message = “I just scored " …
            tostring(playerWicketsLost) … “/” … tostring(playerRunsScored) …
            " and " … getMatchSummaryWonByText(true) … " against " … computerTeamAbbrev …
            " in The Best Cricket Game Ever.  Can you beat my score? http://www.bestcricketgame.com”
        event.target.url = “https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=” … url_encode(message)
        openWebsite(event)
    end
end
 

function url_encode(str)
  if (str) then
    str = string.gsub (str, “\n”, “\r\n”)
    str = string.gsub (str, “([^%w %-%_%.%~])”,
        function © return string.format ("%%%02X", string.byte©) end)
    str = string.gsub (str, " ", “+”)
  end
  return str    
end

function openWebsite(event)
    if event and event.phase ~= “ended” then return true end
    
    if event.target.url == nil then
        print(“no target url”)
    else
        system.openURL(event.target.url)
    end
    
    return true
end
 

Hope you find it useful :slight_smile:

#2

I found this very helpful. Thanks

FYI the forum formatted “( c )” into ©, so one of the above lines should read “function ( c ) return string.format (”%%%02X", string.byte( c )) end)"

#3

I found this very helpful. Thanks

FYI the forum formatted “( c )” into ©, so one of the above lines should read “function ( c ) return string.format (”%%%02X", string.byte( c )) end)"