Hands on OAuth with the playground
After having an overview of OAuth, we can now get a change to watch the OAuth dance unfold before us with a great site called the OAuth Playground where we can simulate all these OAuth requests. The...
View ArticleOAuth in java – the Signpost library
For a quick command line java example, we’ll be using the oauth-signpost library, a java library with OAuth support that can also be used in Android projects (see Implementing the OAuth flow in...
View ArticleImplementing the OAuth flow in Android
In this post, I’ll be showing you how to use the OAuth signpost library in an Android application. We’ll create a simple application that fetches your Google Contacts using the Google Contacts API,...
View ArticleA 30 minute guide to integrating Twitter in your Android application.
Important note : As an update to this article, I’ve prepared a new post entitled Improved Twitter OAuth for Android focussing on a more simple Oauth / Android experience, and using the Google APIs...
View ArticleA 30 minute guide to integrating Facebook in your Android application
Introduction The goal of this article is to get Facebook integration up & running from your Android app in 30 minutes. The guide will show you how to setup a Faceook test account register a...
View ArticleOAuth in Android using the Google APIs Client Library for Java
Today we’ll be looking at the Google APIs Client Library for Java. The API is provided by Google, and is a flexible, efficient, and powerful Java client library for accessing any HTTP-based API’s on...
View ArticleNew way to create test users in Facebook
Introduction As mentioned in the Facebook developer docs, test users can only be created using a call to the Graph API. As described in my previous Facebook article, a dedicated webpage was available...
View ArticleOauth 2.0 flow in Android
In this article, I’m going to show you how you can implement an OAuth 2.0 flow in Android. We’ll be using the Google Latitude API as a sample Google API (one that has recently received Oauth 2.0...
View ArticleImproved Twitter OAuth for Android
A couple of months ago, I published a post entitled A 30 minute guide to integrating Twitter in your Android application.. The post presented a sample Android application to integrate Twitter. Using...
View Article30 minute guide to integrating Foursquare in your Android application
In this article, I’m going to show you how you can use Foursquare in your Android application using OAuth 2.0. We’ll be using the foursquare-api-java to do the actual Foursquare calls. the Google...
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