Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Copyright 2011 by Chris Dannen, Christopher White
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Contents at a Glance
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About the Authors
Chris Dannen is a business and technology writer who writes for FastCompany magazine and other publications. He is also the author of iPhone Design Award Winning Projects (Apress, 2009). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Christopher White is an iOS engineer with a background in location-based gaming, mobile advertising, and in-vehicle GPS navigation. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
About the Technical Reviewer
Ryan Petrich is a software engineer with a background in reverse engineering, mobile advertising, and iOS software development. He resides in Edmonton, AB and Brooklyn, NY.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to our editors and friends, who tolerated our spontaneous style of work.
Preface
Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the only platforms that are so vital to our daily communications that they could, for some users, supersede Apple's own communication apps, the SMS app, and the phone. In a few years, some people may live the majority of their iOS experience inside one of these platforms.
Fortunately for us, the third-party developers, both of these companies are growing so rapidly that they can hardly afford to explore and optimize every possible use for these platforms. (They also have the minor issue of monetization to worry about.)
As the staffs at Twitter and Facebook busy themselves refining their products, privacy policies, APIs, and business plans, there is a huge opportunity for smaller, more nimble developers to get out there and see what people want next from the online social experience. As an independent developer, you have the power to find a niche among Facebook and Twitter usersperhaps a very big nicheand create a tool that feels novel and useful, yet familiar and intuitive.