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Social Networking API

The document discusses several social network APIs for developing mobile applications, including OpenSocial, an API by Google for social networks like Hi5, MySpace, and Orkut; the OpenSocial Java client library; Facebook's API for Android apps; Twitter4j for the Twitter API on Android; JTwitter, a Java library for the Twitter API; and the Twitter Android SDK, an open source project on GitHub. It provides information on the purpose and features of each API.

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Social Networking API

The document discusses several social network APIs for developing mobile applications, including OpenSocial, an API by Google for social networks like Hi5, MySpace, and Orkut; the OpenSocial Java client library; Facebook's API for Android apps; Twitter4j for the Twitter API on Android; JTwitter, a Java library for the Twitter API; and the Twitter Android SDK, an open source project on GitHub. It provides information on the purpose and features of each API.

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Social Network API

Satya Ram Twanabasu


Wei Wei

Social Network 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

https://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


https://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

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