Social Networking API

Satya Ram Twanabasu

Social Networking API

Motivation API Libraries for Facebook, Twitter and Other

Social Networking Sites

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

OpenSocial

Social Networking API by Google http:// www.opensocial.org

API supports for Hi5,MySpace,Orkut,Netlog,FriendFinder.

Based on HTML & JavaScript Released on Nov '07(v 0.5) and latest version

is 1.1(Nov '10)

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.

facebook-android-sdk

API for FB by FB targeting Android http:// 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

Twitter4j

Unofficial Java library for the Twitter API http:// 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

JTwitter

Java library for the Twitter API http:// www.winterwell.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

Twitter-Android-sdk

Open Source Project hosted on githhub http:// github.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