Twitter Feed in UITableView

[nd049]

Hey everyone,

I am trying to figure out how to get one twitter feed (that would be hard coded and wouldn't change per user) to show up in a UITableView (one tweet per cell). I've tried to find some kind of tutorial or any information on where to start, but I haven't been very successful at finding anything. If anyone has implemented something like this and can offer some advise or if you know of a tutorial that covers this, it would help me out a lot!

Thanks!

[TapTouchClick]

For your purpose. Google

RSS Feed Reader iPhone Tutorial

all Twitter profiles have an rss. =) cheers

[nd049]

Do you know how would I make all of the text of the tweet fit in the whole cell? right now the text is still big and only displays part of the text.

Any ideas?

[harrytheshark]

Make a custom cell, there are a few tutorials online if you don't mind a bit of googling

[nd049]

Thanks a lot! I have two more questions though. I now have my custom cells working properly, but at the end of the tweets it shows Thanks for the... | Facebook or something of that sort because it is often posted from facebook. I would like to get rid of that link each time at the end. I know I could use

stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"http://bit.ly/"

but that would only remove the first part of the link. So my question is: is there some method that removes a certain number of characters from the end of a string?

My second question is when i go to the twitter tab in my app it takes a second or two to load because it's parsing the rss feed. Does anyone know of a way to speed up that process so that there is less of a delay?

Thanks!

[harrytheshark]

You can use NSString's substringWithRange: to get a string with a certain amount of characters, look in the documentation for more information.

For the second question, run the parse in a background thread so the UI doesn't hang.

[nd049]

Originally Posted by harrytheshark

You can use NSString's substringWithRange: to get a string with a certain amount of characters, look in the documentation for more information.

For the second question, run the parse in a background thread so the UI doesn't hang.

I don't have much experience with threading do you know of a good tutorial?

[harrytheshark]

The simplest example is something like:

- (void)startBackgroundTask {
	
	// interact with UI if necessary (start a progress wheel)
	
	[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(backgroundTask) toTarget:self withObject:nil];
	
}

- (void)backgroundTask {
	
	NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]
	
	// do the background task
	
	[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(backgroundTaskDone) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];
	[pool release];
	
}

- (void)backgroundTaskDone {
	
	// interact with UI if necessary (stop a progress wheel)
}

[nd049]

Originally Posted by harrytheshark

The simplest example is something like:

Thank you so much!!! That worked perfectly for what I need it for!

Does anyone have an idea what the date of post element of an twitter rss feed is called? I tried "date" and "created_at" but neither seem to work. What i did was:

if ([currentElement isEqualToString:@"title"]) {
		[currentTitle appendString:string];
	}
	else if ([currentElement isEqualToString:@"created_at"]) {
		NSLog(@"found date!");
		[currentDate appendString:string];
	}

If you have any experience with this the help would be appreciated!