iOS-Twitter and Facebook
IOS-Twitter and Facebook
Introduction
Twitter has been integrated into iOS5.0, and Facebook has been integrated into iOS 6.0. The focus of this tutorial is to explain how to use the classes provided by Apple to deploy Twitter and Facebook in iOS5.0 and iOS6.0.
Example steps
1. Create a simple View based application
2. Select the project file, then select "targets", and then select frameworks ) and add Social.framework and Accounts.framework
3. Add two buttons named facebookPost and twitterPost and create ibActions for them.
4. Update ViewController.h as follows
#import <Social/Social.h>#import <Accounts/Accounts.h>#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>@interface ViewController : UIViewController-(IBAction)twitterPost:(id)sender;-(IBAction)facebookPost:(id)sender;@end
5. Update ViewController.m as follows
#import "ViewController.h"@interface ViewController ()@end@implementation ViewController- (void)viewDidLoad{ [super viewDidLoad];}- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning{ [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.}-(IBAction)facebookPost:(id)sender{ SLComposeViewController *controller = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]; SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler myBlock = ^(SLComposeViewControllerResult result){ if (result == SLComposeViewControllerResultCancelled) { NSLog(@"Cancelled"); } else { NSLog(@"Done"); } [controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]; }; controller.completionHandler =myBlock; //Adding the Text to the facebook post value from iOS [controller setInitialText:@"My test post"]; //Adding the URL to the facebook post value from iOS [controller addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.test.com"]]; //Adding the Text to the facebook post value from iOS [self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:nil]; }-(IBAction)twitterPost:(id)sender{ SLComposeViewController *tweetSheet = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter]; [tweetSheet setInitialText:@"My test tweet"]; [self presentModalViewController:tweetSheet animated:YES];}@end
Output
Run the application and click When we click on facebookPost we will get the following output
When we click on twitterPost we will get the following output