Comments on: Android: Improving Interfacing with twitter applications

By: mat

mat — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:02:45 +0000

This (see link below) provides the basis for a more elegant solution, which can be used to create a chooser displaying only items that match providing they are installed, or provide an option for user to goto market and install them. I will try and update wordcube to use this method, and will post a new function once it is created.

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/can-i-use-this-intent.html

By: mat

mat — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:31:21 +0000

I believe that applications can be set to listen to whatever MIME type they choose, and I know for twidroid that “application/twitter” works. However it may be that other twitter applications do not, and so it might be more of a well-rounded solution to send “text/plain” so that any program that accepts text can respond and the user can choose from a list.

What do you think? Also I will have a look into PackageManager to save using try/catch, thanks.

Ref:
http://twidroid.com/plugins/

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uberVU - social comments — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:59:32 +0000

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By: Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:29:32 +0000

Note that there is no such MIME type as “application/twitter”.

You might also consider using PackageManager to detect whether an Intent will be used rather than causing exceptions to be raised and caught.