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Twitter Follow Button for iOS / iPhone – Code

Chris — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:34:35 +0000

I was looking for an easy way to link to your Twitter profile in a user’s Twitter Application of choice from an iOS App. There were lots of handy resources, but no complete solution for iPhone so I coded one up and threw it on GitHub: Twitter Follow Button for iOS

It’s pretty simple to use:

[self.view addSubview:[[FollowMeButton alloc] initWithTwitterAccount:
@"chrismaddern" atOrigin:CGPointMake(205, 248) isSmallButton:YES]];

Or you can just change the class of a UIButton in the Interface Builder and then synthesise it as a property.

I hope that this helps some people out!

Go to the GitHub
Just download the code

Credit where credit’s due!

This is largely several others’ work pulled together to create a simple-to-include repo.

Hi-Res Follow Me button created by Joseph DiPaolo:

http://www.illustrated-primer.com/blog/2011/06/19/twitter-follow-buttons/

Non-Twitter App Schemes from the Gist Repo:

https://gist.github.com/958738 Created by vhbit

Thanks to HandleOpenURL for documenting the Twitter iOS5 Scheme http://handleopenurl.com/scheme/twitter

Writing my first iPhone App Store App

Chris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:27:23 +0000

I’ve made a few attempts at this before (that have lasted less than a day each!), but for the past week I’ve begun teaching myself Objective-C and working on an App for submission to the App Store.

Objective C isn’t the easiest language to move to, despite what Apple seems to have droves of developers willing to testify – infact, it’s probably the most difficult language to ‘penetrate’ of all the high level languages. That said, the potential benefits and uses of being able to create applications to work on what will likely become one of the most ubiquitous platforms about are enormous.

So, I’ve now gotten to the stage of having a working Application on my iPhone (having payed for the Developer account) with it’s icon etc… It can run a sockets server, and connect to a sockets server. Hurrah.

Over the next 3 weeks (my aim for this app being to a stage where work will be polish and not interesting to write about), I will be posting most days about my progress and letting you in on how the process of getting an App in to the App Store goes.

Wish me luck!
Chris