CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidapitwitterrate-limiting
programmingmanwithaplan
programmingmanwithaplan

Reputation: 41

Displaying tweets from user's twitter accounts in an android app

I am not an experienced developer by an means. I was wondering about the feasibility of being able to take a subset of tweets from my app user's twitter account and displaying them in my android app. I would like to continually update their timeline for a period of 2 hours or so at a time.

When I read the Twitter API documentation, I am not exactly sure as to whether or not I can do this for free. Do you all know if I can do this for free for a bunch of users? Do you also know whether or not there is a limit to how many calls can be made to the Twitter API? If my app were to have say 100,000 users at some point, would all of them calling the API cause me to hit some limit? And again, would that be free?

And then more generally, any responses on how to go about displaying these tweets and what goes into doing this in contacting the Twitter API from the android app would be much appreciated.

Again, I am really inexperienced so I am not really good at interpreting some of the Twitter API documentation. Thanks for any answers.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 411

Answers (1)

anon
anon

Reputation:

If you use a web view and an embedded Tweet widget (JS from publish.twitter.com) you could do this for any number of users without hitting limits. If you want to code your own Twitter native display inside your app, you’ll be calling the Twitter API directly, and there are rate limits, but you could always cache the most recent Tweets on your own server, and manage those limits at a single point, rather than having every one of your Android app users sign-in to Twitter.

Upvotes: 1

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