Beginning iOS Apps With Facebook and Twitter APIs · for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch by Chris Dannen, Christopher White -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents at a Glance Contents About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: What the Social Graph Can Do for Your App

What Is This Book for?

What You'll Need What You Should Know What You'll Learn

Learning the Social Graph

Use-Cases, Briefly

Brief Overview of the APIs and Services

Facebook Twitter The Social Graph on iOS

Summary

Chapter 2: Privacy, Privacy, Privacy

The Old Way A Quick History of Hot-Button Issues

Facebook's Track Record Twitter's Track Record

How OAuth Changes Everything

A New Standard Emerges

What Users “Want” Educating Your Users A Note on Feeds What to Do if You Encounter a Security Loophole Summary

Chapter 3: Choose Your Weapon!

What Are They Good For?

Facebook Twitter

Getting Started with Facebook's Awesome Developer Tools

Using Facebook's API

Twitter's Less Awesome (but Still Great!) Tools

Using MGTwitterEngine

Summary

Chapter 4: Getting Set Up

Git 'Er Dun

Github.com Installing Git

Hello Facebook

Creating a Project

Hello Twitter

Creating a Project

Now, on to Security

Chapter 5: Working Securely with OAuth and Accounts

OAll OAbout OAuth

How OAuth Works

OAuth in Facebook

Single Sign-On with Facebook

OAuth in Twitter

Creating a Twitter Application

There's More

Chapter 6: Getting Your App Ready for Social Messaging

Introducing the Facebook Graph API

A Little Help from Our Friends Paging Graph Responses Under the Hood: The FBRequest Class

Introducing the Twitter APIs

Welcome to the Timeline Under the Hood: MGTwitter HTTP Connections and XML Parsing

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Accessing People, Places, Objects, and Relationships

More Fun with the Facebook Graph API

Facebook Dialogs Under the Hood: The FBDialog Class Posting to Facebook and Authorization Getting More Goodies from the Facebook Graph Limiting Results

More Fun with the Twitter API

A Tweetin’ We Will Go Under the Hood: Twitter URLs The Twitter Dev Console

Conclusion

Chapter 8: POSTing, Data Modeling, and Going Offline

Strike a Pose

Saving a Picture to the iOS Simulator’s Photo Library Working with UIImagePickerController ImagePostController Facebook Photo Upload Twitter Photo Upload Post a Photo

Offline Paradigm and Background Processing

Data Modeling with TwitterDataStore

Conclusion

Chapter 9: Working with Location Awareness and Streaming Data

Here, There, and Everywhere

Location Privacy, Disclosure, and Opt-Out Facebook Places Adding Locations to Tweets Power Hungry CoreLocation Generating Locations in the iOS Simulator MapKit Facebook Places (Search), Check-ins (Getting and Posting), and Friends Nearby Tweetin' With Location

Conclusion

Chapter 10: Using Open Source Tools and Other Goodies

The Shorter, the Better

Using URL Shorteners in iOS

ShareKit: Sometimes Quick and Dirty Does the Trick

Getting Started with ShareKit

All the Latest Twitter Trends