xAuthTwitterEngine library and demo
xAuthTwitterEngine is a library and demo that aims to simplify the process of adding Twitter xAuth authentication to your iPhone apps.
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1 Mar 2010
I just released an open source library and a sample application to make it easy for you to implement Twitter's new browserless xAuth authentication mechanism in your iPhone apps. You can download the source code or fork it from the XAuthTwitterEngine repository on Github.
Twitter started rolling out access to its new xAuth beta to developers over the weekend. As you may know, I'm a big fan of xAuth for mobile and desktop applications and as such I began implementing xAuth in Feathers right away.
Those of you following my tweets may have seen that I was rather frustrated this week at Twitter's oAuth policy with regard to desktop and mobile applications.
In a nutshell, Twitter requires any new applications that use the Twitter API to use oAuth for authorization if they want to display the source parameter in tweets. The source parameter is the little bit of text and the link to your app that appears at the bottom of tweets (e.g., via Tweetie). It constitutes a very important bit of organic marketing for Twitter apps.
Twitter fixes oAuth for desktop and mobile with xAuth
Twitter's xAuth implementation is a timely and pragmatic solution that adapts oAuth to the needs of mobile and desktop applications. I applaud Twitter for taking the lead with this.
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Occipital is the company behind RedLaser (iTunes link), a hugely-successful barcode scanning app for the iPhone that is one of the top-selling and highest-grossing apps on the App Store.
Beyond that, however, Occipital is a Value Adder, just like Joe Hewitt.
