@nativescript/twitter

A plugin that allows you to authenticate a user with their Twitter account.

Contents

• Installation
• Prerequisites
• Usage
  • Initializing Twitter Sign-in
  • TwitterSignIn
    • logIn()
    • getCurrentUser()
    • logOut()
• [License]

Installation

npm install @nativescript/twitter

Prerequisites

• Go to Twitter Apps and create your app to obtain the API key and secret.

• Set a Callback Url with the Twitter.callback property. Whatever will work. For iOS, add the following code to the App_Resources/ios/Info.plist file, and replace the yourscheme text with your URL.

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
  <dict>
    <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
    <array>
      <string>yourscheme></string>
    </array>
  </dict>
</array>

• Request for the user's permission for your app to retrieve their email. By default, Twitter won't allow you to grab a user's email.

Here is what callbacks would look like:

Usage

Initializing Twitter Sign-in

To set up Twitter Sign in, call the Twitter class's init() method passing it the consumer key and the consumer secret.

import { Twitter, TwitterSignIn } from '@nativescript/twitter';

Twitter.callback = 'yourscheme://';

Twitter.init(TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET);

Sign in a user

To sign a user in, call the logIn() method on the TwitterSignIn class.

TwitterSignIn.logIn()
	.then((session) => {
		// session.authToken
		// session.authTokenSecret
	})
	.catch((e) => {});

API

Twitter

callback

Twitter.callback = "the callback url"

The callback URL

init()

Twitter.init(consumerKey, consumerSecret)

Initializes the Twitter authentification with the specified key and secret.

TwitterSignIn

logIn()

TwitterSignIn.logIn().then((session: Session) =>{

}).catch((err) =>{

})

Session

getCurrentUser()

TwitterSignIn.getCurrentUser().then((user: TwitterUser) =>{

}).catch((err) =>{

})

TwitterUser

logOut()

TwitterSignIn.logIn()

License

Apache License Version 2.0