Thanks Team Fabric!

[DanielCHood]

I have very limited experience with Java/Android. Last year I managed to buy a few games, add in Google Analytics and make some changes to them. I did that basically just to familiarize myself and in a somewhat poor attempt to learn how to make apps.

Yesterday I decided to give it a more serious approach. In just a few hours of effort using Fabric I’ve pieced together something that I’m somewhat impressed by. I still have a few more things I want to build into it but I’m rather impressed by how easy it’s been to work with. I’ll likely be typing up a nice blog post in the near future about my experience and some helpful tips to someone getting started.

[bonnell]

Hey @DanielCHood,

Thanks for the very kind words, they are greatly appreciated and made the team’s day

Please do the share the blog post when you’re done with it and keep rocking with the apps!

-Mike

[DanielCHood]

I do have one question, I tried looking around on the twitterdev github but I couldn’t find anything. I know that Fabric encourages use of pushing an Intent to Twitter for composing tweets but I already have it set up to login as I want to allow replies, likes, and retweets. I have everything working except for I’m not monitoring the character limit at all. I use the javascript library for my website to display characters remaining, convert links, etc… Is there a Java library where I can get the characters remaining?

[DanielCHood]

It’s a little long and I’m likely to edit but I just typed up a draft: https://medium.com/@DanielCHood/android-development-with-fabric-41e205f4636a#.5m1vft0r7

[bonnell]

I enjoyed the read! I’m not aware of a library that does that offhand, but that is an area I’m less of an expert in. I’m reaching out to a few other folks to see if they know of one.

-Mike

[bonnell]

Hey @DanielCHood,

Check out this: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text should have what you’re looking for

-Mike