And has the source code or knows where it can be downloaded?

Long story short, I'm trying to make an android app where...

ok, basically imagine pressing an app button on your phone, and a blank white page opens up with a text box and a submit button. You type something into that box and press submit, and that gets tweeted to your twitter account.

I've googled and visited various stackoverflow posts / tutorials and have in fact found a few apps with the entire project source code available. But when I download them and try and build them, I get a bunch of errors that are either too vague to google or receive no results.

I'd post links but I think there is a rule against that.

I'm hoping to find an app that I can basically open, build, and then run successfully on an emulator, and modify it from there.

If it matters, I'm running Android Studio on Mac OS X whatever the latest OS is.

you either 1) don't know anything about android or 2) don't know anything about java. i'm hoping the former. set up android on your machine. once that's done, just go through the hello world tutorial, which should take minutes. then add a text box and button. maybe 20 minutes if you dont know anything about android. then go through twitter's api. i have the feeling it would be much faster than trying to find someone else's project and trying to set it up properly to make it work. adding your dependencies piece by piece is less frustrating than trying to understand why an entire project won't work.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Feb 27 2015 05:25pm

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the former, sir.

I'm on plan F or G or so. What you're describing was the plan A I went through when I first tried it out.

Making a new project and following the hello world tutorial works perfectly. Everything after that is where shit hits the fan.

If you're curious, here's my current error message that, when googled, turns up nothing useful.



Using spotlight on my mac searching for gauge turns up nothing as well, so I'm at a loss. I figured finding someone else's already working project made on my same OS/IDE would be a more viable solution.

But please, if something I said is illogical or untrue, I'm glad to add the correction to my programming vernacular.

Why would I use this app. instead of just tweeting through my twitter directly?