Learn to build mobile applications for the exciting new Android platform. When you purchase this product, you'll get access to the videos, slide presentations, and code examples associated with the online course, Developing Android Applications with Java, Part 2. As you learn, you will build a Twitter app from start to finish.

You can never have too many Twitter clients, as the market has already proven. We'll use a very comprehensive and useful library called twitter4j to do the heavy lifting for us, but there will be plenty of lifting left to do. We'll walk you through setting up sign ins, creating a public timeline, making sure your app is responsive and giving it style to stand out from the flock. Finally, for those times when 140 characters isn't enough, you'll extend your Twitter client to also post photos to the popular Twitpic image service.

Overview: Build an Android Twitter App

1 - Getting Ready to Build a Twitter App 14 minutes
2 - O'Auth Twitter Authentication and Q&A; 22 minutes

Week 1: Getting Authenticated with Twitter

1 - Introduction and Review of OAuth 5 minutes
2 - Becoming an OAuth Consumer 19 minutes
3 - Is the User Authenticated? 13 minutes
4 - Loading Twitter's Authentication Page 11 minutes
5 - Saving the Access Tokens 37 minutes

Week 2: Displaying Tweets and the Twitter Public Timeline

1 - Introduction to Loading Tweets and Threading 3 minutes
2 - Loading the Twitter Home Timeline 25 minutes
3 - Loading Newer Tweets 25 minutes
4 - Loading Older Tweets 11 minutes
5 - Loading on a Thread 27 minutes
6 - Showing the Status Detail View 15 minutes

Week 3: Tweeting from Your App

1 - Introduction to Threads and Tweets 4 minutes
2 - Loading Avatars with Threads 13 minutes
3 - Loading Avatars with Async Task 35 minutes
4 - Loading Tweets with Async Tasks 14 minutes
5 - Navigating with a Menu 20 minutes
6 - Posting Tweets 15 minutes
7 - Wrap Up, Homework and Q&A; 8 minutes

Week 4: Adding Style to Your App

1 - Introduction to Skinning and Styling your Twitter App 7 minutes
2 - Creating a Theme with Colors and Fonts 30 minutes
3 - Styling Menus and Buttons 33 minutes
4 - Styling the Text Area and the List 24 minutes
5 - Styling for Different Screens 21 minutes

Week 5: Posting Photos from Your App

1 - Introduction to Posting your Photos to Twitter 7 minutes
2 - Getting Ready for Photos 20 minutes
3 - Attaching a Photo from the Library 30 minutes
4 - Attaching a Photo from the Camera 28 minutes
5 - Posting a Photo 17 minutes
6 - Recap of course and Q&A; 5 minutes

By: Tony Hillerson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media + creativetechs
Released: April 2010
Run time: 9 hours 36 minutes

More info:
_http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010289
_http://creativelive.com/courses/developing-android-applications-java-part-2-partnership-oreilly