Embed social media feeds into the app

[n8ebel]

could include a screen(s) in the app that follows certain accounts and/or hashtags related to the event

• display posts from the conference twitter/Instagram feed

• display posts with the droidconBos hashtag from Twitter and Instagram

• allow users to add hashtags to pull content into the feed

• -allow posting from within the app-

[sagar-viradiya]

High level thoughts on social integration

• Feed by default will have content which has droidcon boston hashtag.
• User can add/remove hashtag they want in feed.
• Each feed(Twitter and instagram) will have FAB to post anything with droidcon boston hashtag pre-filled in content.

[sagar-viradiya]

The Twitter search API documentation for embedding hashtag feed.
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/overview

[sagar-viradiya]

Documentation on twitter API authentication
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/overview/oauth

We will be using application only authentication. If we go with the standard API then according to this documentation of rate limiting we would get 450 requests per 15 min window.

Rate limit for standard API is defined here

Twitter API authentication we need is documented here

[GiorgioNatili]

@sagar-viradiya I sent an email to my contact in Twitter to see if she can help with the API. In the meantime, I think we can go ahead.

The worst case scenario is paying just for one month the fee. One observation is that we don't want to authenticate the users but instead we want just to consume the feed; the fee for more than 2,500 requests is $699.00 that is a little bit pricy. :|

I will keep you posted on the progress of my conversations.

[sagar-viradiya]

Thanks, @GiorgioNatili.
We don't need user authentication. I was talking about API authentication. Before querying API, search API needs authentication.

It would be great if we have last year's data about the number of users. Meanwhile, I would be working on planning implementation.

[sagar-viradiya]

@GiorgioNatili Any update?

[sagar-viradiya]

@GiorgioNatili We have to create developer account also for API key and API secret. To get started I have created a developer account for API key and secret under my twitter account.

More info on how to apply for developer account can be found here

[n8ebel]

@GiorgioNatili Any Update from your contact at Twitter?

[sagar-viradiya]

@GiorgioNatili @n8ebel Thinking of using room for offline support. DB will be single source of truth for data.