Question

I have successfully completed this: http://www.sitepoint.com/loading-twitter-data-into-android-with-lists/ tutorial and have gotten my app to display tweets based on a search criteria.

What I want my app to do is display the timeline of a specific user.

From that tutorial I have replaced my get line with this:

HttpGet("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=android");

I am getting no results in my listview.. I shouldn’t need to authenticate user name and password because all I want to do is display the timeline, not manipulate it.

Answer 1

If you are using Twitter4j this is pretty easy :

 public final class GetTimelines {
        /**
         * Usage: java twitter4j.examples.GetTimelines ID Password
         * @param args String[]
         */
        public static void main(String[] args) {

            Twitter unauthenticatedTwitter = new TwitterFactory()
                    .getInstance();
            System.out.println("Showing public timeline.");
            try {
                List<Status> statuses = unauthenticatedTwitter
                        .getPublicTimeline();
                for (Status status : statuses) {
                    System.out.println(status.getUser().getName() + ":"
                            + status.getText());
                }
                if (args.length < 2) {
                    System.out
                            .println("You need to specify TwitterID/Password combination to show UserTimelines.");
                    System.out
                            .println("Usage: java twitter4j.examples.GetTimelines ID Password");
                    System.exit(0);
                }

                // Other methods require authentication
                Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance(args[0],
                        args[1]);
                statuses = twitter.getFriendsTimeline();
                System.out.println("------------------------------");
                System.out.println("Showing " + args[0]
                        + "'s friends timeline.");
                for (Status status : statuses) {
                    System.out.println(status.getUser().getName() + ":"
                            + status.getText());
                }
                statuses = twitter.getUserTimeline();
                System.out.println("------------------------------");
                System.out.println("Showing " + args[0] + "'s timeline.");
                for (Status status : statuses) {
                    System.out.println(status.getUser().getName() + ":"
                            + status.getText());
                }
                Status status = twitter.showStatus(81642112l);
                System.out.println("------------------------------");
                System.out.println("Showing " + status.getUser().getName()
                        + "'s status updated at " + status.getCreatedAt());
                System.out.println(status.getText());
                System.exit(0);
            } catch (TwitterException te) {
                System.out.println("Failed to get timeline: "
                        + te.getMessage());
                System.exit(-1);
            }
        }
    }

_{Sample taken from here}