Social Network API

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Social Network API
Satya Ram TwanabasuWei Wei
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Social Network API

• Motivation
• API Libraries for Facebook, Twitter and Other
  Social Networking Sites

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Motivation

• Urge of Social Network Sites
• We don't need to develop another Facebook...!
• Plethora of Mobile App. Based using Social
  Networking APIs
• MeetByChance,SocialMuse,AgileMessanger
• TweetDeck,TweetAssist,SwiftTwitter,XeekuTwitter

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OpenSocial

• Social Networking API by Google
• http//www.opensocial.org
• API supports for Hi5,MySpace,Orkut,Netlog,FriendFi
  nder.
• Based on HTML JavaScript
• Released on Nov '07(v 0.5) and latest version is
  1.1(Nov '10)

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OpenSocial for Java

• OpenSocial Java Client Library
• JSON based Java Library packaged into single .jar
  file
• Well documented and easy to use.
• Not yet stable version and hence regularly
  updated.

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facebook-android-sdk

• API for FB by FB targeting Android
• https//github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk
• Facebook Application ID must be set for
  developing any mobile app. with this SDK
• http//www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.
  php
• Very active project, first began on May'10
• Well documented and highly recommended

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Twitter4j

• Unofficial Java library for the Twitter
  APIhttp//twitter4j.org
• Targeted for Android and well-documented
• Single .jar file no dependency for Oauth file
• Latest version is 2.1.11
• Recommended API for Android

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JTwitter

• Java library for the Twitter APIhttp//www.winter
  well.com/software/jtwitter.php
• Open Source Project by Daniel Winterstei
• Packaged into two .jar files twitter.jar and
  signpost.jar
• Small library with easy access to Twitter
• If you can do it at twitter.com, you can
  probably do it with Jtwitter - homepage

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Twitter-Android-sdk

• Open Source Project hosted on githhubhttps//gith
  ub.com/sugree/twitter-android-sdk
• Initiated by a Sugree(an active member of
  GithHub) on Oct 30,2010
• Very initial stage and not mature enough