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== Twitter application and Twitpic support for Canola - GSoC 2009 Project ==

*'''Student''': kasun herath 
*'''Mentor''': Eduardo Lima 
*'''Repository''': http://github.com/kasun/Canola-twitter/tree/master


===Project summary===

The aim of this project is to provide a twitter application and twitpic support for canola2. 

Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging system.

Twitpic could be used to share photos over twitter.

<p>
<b>Features to be implemented in the new twitter plugin</b>

<ul>
<li>UI of the twitter plugin.</li>
<li>Engaging in usual twitter activities.</li>
<li>Posting pictures on the device over twitpic.</li>
<li>Adding support to the flickr plugin to share URL's of photos over twitter.</li>
<li>Adding suppport to the youtube plugin to share URL's of videos over twitter.</li>
</ul>

</p>

<p>
<b> Resources </b> <br/ >
Mockups of the plugin - [[Media:twitter_mockup.jpg]]
Current Interfaces - [[Media:Twitter-textbox.png]] , [[Media:Twitter-list.png]] [[Media:Twitter-updates.png]] , [[Media:Twitter-options.png]] , [[Media:Twitter-Reply.png]] , [[Media:Twitter-Twitpic.png]]
</p>

==Progress==
<ul>
<li>Settings options implemented.</li>
<li>Twitter client implemented.</li>
<li>Twitter options(Reply, Retweet, Delete) implemented</li>
<li>Twitpic support integrated</li>
</ul>

===Project Reports===

*[http://n2.nabble.com/-GSoC-09----Twitter-application-and-Twitpic-support-for-Canola----Report-td3039268.html Report 1]
*[http://n2.nabble.com/-GSoC-09----Twitter-application-and-Twitpic-support-for-Canola----Report-2-td3169368.html Report 2]

== How to Install ==
<ul>
<li>Download the latest twitter-plugin using the command, git clone git://code.openbossa.org/canola-twitter-plugin/mainline.git</li>
<li>copy the mainline/canola-twitter folder into canola-src/canola/plugins folder</li>
<li>cd into, mainline/data/themes/default</li>
<li> Run, edje_cc default.edc default-twitter.edj -id images command to compile the theme file</li>
<li> copy the default-twitter.edj into canola-src/canola/THEMES folder</li>
<li> Install python-twitter API from [http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/]
</ul>

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