Social API

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Aman	(Posted 2012) [#1]

I just tried this cool API. Didn't test it on iOS yet but tried it on Android and it works well.

http://www.getsocialize.com

Anyone else tried this or something similar?

pantson

(Posted 2012) [#2]

looks like a nice API, not really a gaming one imo
I may look at plugging it into non games

For games I use OpenFeint (leaderboards, acheivements)
http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=1708

pantson

(Posted 2012) [#3]

Hi Aman
Is it possible I could grab a copy of your code for Android and getsocialise please?

for some reason I cannot get this working. (it all compiles but no bar appears)

MonkeyPig

(Posted 2012) [#4]

Pantson, I was able to get this to display (after much faffing) by following the second method they outlined - including the Action Bar in your XML layout...

	static void ShowSocializeUI()
	{			  
		Log.d("CC","ShowSocializeUI()");
		String entityKey = "http://www.getsocialize.com";
		
		// Create an entity object including a name
		// The Entity object is Serializable, so you could also store the whole object in the Intent
		Entity entity = Entity.newInstance(entityKey, "Socialize");
			
		Socialize.getSocializeUI().showActionBar(MonkeyGame.activity, R.layout.main, entity);
	
				//MonkeyGame.activity.setContentView(R.layout.main);
		ActionBarView socializeActionBarView = (ActionBarView) MonkeyGame.activity.findViewById(R.id.socializeActionBar);
		socializeActionBarView.setEntity(Entity.newInstance("foo", "bar"));
		socializeActionBarView.refresh(); // Optional.. only if changing entity key.
	}

Added this as a function in my native code.

There's probably cleaner/more elegant solutions but it worked - so I'll probably continue to play with it.

I didn't do any of the scrolling layout stuff - just put their sample XML at the end of my internal relative layout like so...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	android:layout_width="fill_parent"
	android:layout_height="fill_parent"
	android:orientation="vertical"
    >
	<view class="com.mypackage.MonkeyGame$MonkeyView"
    	android:id="@+id/monkeyview"
		android:keepScreenOn="true"
  		android:layout_width="fill_parent"
		android:layout_height="fill_parent"
		/>

    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    	android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    	android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    	android:orientation="vertical"
        android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
        android:visibility="gone"
        >

...

    </RelativeLayout>

        <!-- The ActionBar MUST appear AFTER your content in your layout -->
        <com.socialize.ui.actionbar.ActionBarView
                android:id="@+id/socializeActionBar"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>

</RelativeLayout>

Aman	(Posted 2012) [#5]

Here are the steps:
http://socialize.github.com/socialize-sdk-android/getting_started.html#steps-to-using-socialize

I just followed the steps and it worked fine