Invite twitter followers

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hi,

I have a button in my game called “invite followers” which when clicked I want to have a message composed ready for a tweet saying something like “come and play xyz”  with a link to the app store.

I know ios has a build in twitter account but I want this to work on ios and android so just happy for the app to break out to the twitter app / web as long as it defaults to my text for the tweet…

Can anyone advise the best way to achieve this?

Thanks!

#2

Corona SDK supports the built in Twitter login on iOS using the native.showPopup(“twitter”) API call.  This is available to all tiers.  Pro and Enterprise subscribers can use the social plugin:   native.showPopup(“social”) which works for both iOS and Android and supports additional social networks. 

You can also look at the Twitter sample app in SampleCode/Networking/Twitter and implement code from there into your app to do what you want, but you have to build the dialog screen, setup a Twitter App and so on.  It’s more work, but it’s available to all tiers.

Rob

#3

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the quick response as always.  I think I’ll go the route of natice.showPopup(“social”) since that will work for both devices :slight_smile:

I’m looking at the documents here http://docs.coronalabs.com/plugin/CoronaProvider_native_popup_social/showPopup.html but it says android support is in beta - is that still applicable?

Cheers

#4

Nevermind… I think I managed to find the old docs!

These are the current ones?

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/showPopup.html

#5

Corona SDK supports the built in Twitter login on iOS using the native.showPopup(“twitter”) API call.  This is available to all tiers.  Pro and Enterprise subscribers can use the social plugin:   native.showPopup(“social”) which works for both iOS and Android and supports additional social networks. 

You can also look at the Twitter sample app in SampleCode/Networking/Twitter and implement code from there into your app to do what you want, but you have to build the dialog screen, setup a Twitter App and so on.  It’s more work, but it’s available to all tiers.

Rob

#6

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the quick response as always.  I think I’ll go the route of natice.showPopup(“social”) since that will work for both devices :slight_smile:

I’m looking at the documents here http://docs.coronalabs.com/plugin/CoronaProvider_native_popup_social/showPopup.html but it says android support is in beta - is that still applicable?

Cheers

#7

Nevermind… I think I managed to find the old docs!

These are the current ones?

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/showPopup.html