Feel free to ask any questions in the AndTweet Google Group!

Contribute to the AndTweet Project

Have you been thinking about coding your own features for AndTweet and want to know how best to proceed?

With a few easy steps you can start developing AndTweet features:

1. Install Eclipse

• Some general installation...
• Integrate Project issues published at http://code.google.com/p/andtweet/issues/list with Eclipse Mylin Plugin using Google code connector.

Update site for Google code connector for Eclipse Mylin plugin:

http://knittig.de/googlecode-mylyn-connector/update/

Install the MercurialEclipse (was: HgEclipse) plugin for Eclipse using the following update site:

http://cbes.javaforge.com/update

2. Download Android SDK

3. Install Android SDK

• To Configure Eclipse's "Java Code Formatter" to use Android coding rules,
1. Download the formatting file from here
2. Then go to 'Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter > Import...' and navigate to the file you just downloaded.
• To Configure Eclipse to organize imports according to Android rules,
1. Download the importorder file from here
2. avigate to 'Preferences > Java > Code Style > Organize Imports > Import ...' and navigate to the file you just downloaded

4. Check out the source

Get a local copy of the AndTweet Mercurial repository with this command:

hg clone https://andtweet.googlecode.com/hg/ andtweet 

To understand how Mercurial works please read the book "Mercurial: The Definitive Guide" by Bryan O'Sullivan.

5. Configure your copy of the AntTweet project for OAuth

5.1. Register your "AndTweet-yoursuffix" application

Please see the screenshot below for the settings of your application:

5.2. Insert your application's private keys to the project:

See "/src/com/xorcode/andtweet/net/OAuthKeys.java" file for more information.

Debugging

Turning debugging info on and off

To turn debugging on you should:

• Start shell on your PC, connected to the device

sdk/tools/adb -d shell

(to start a shell for emulator replace -d with -e in the example above) or install e.g. "Better Terminal Emulator Magic" on your device and launch it

• Run the command:

setprop log.tag.!AndTweet VERBOSE

• Optionally Check debug level:

getprop log.tag.AndTweet

To turn debugging off (only ERROR level messages will be logged):

• Same as above, the command is: setprop log.tag.AndTweet ERROR

Restarting your device

• Start shell:

android-sdk-windows\tools>adb -d shell

• Stop device:

stop

• Start device:

start