Mittratter: Lighweight Twitter Client

Mittratter was approved for selling into the new Mac Store, to reach the program here is the link.

Desktop Twitter made simple. Mittratter is a lightweight desktop client that communicates with Twitter and allows you to share your thoughts easy and fast. Its key features are:

More Cocoa Tips and Tricks

I been working on improving and adding functionality to Mittratter so that it will be available through the Mac App Store. Of course, in my path to developing it, I found more tutorial that could help others programmers out there:

Mittratter - Source Code

Ok, the Compilated App has been released here: Mittratter and its post related: http://mittrasw.blogspot.com/2010/09/mittratter-twitter-client-for-osx.html. What would help to other programmers trying to implement oAuth into their developments will be the source code used by Mittratter to sign into Twitter's Servers. Also I will give a brief explanation of how does this thing work.

As I explained here and here, now Twitter uses the oAuth Procedure, well the code behind is quite tricky and might confuse at first sight. Mittratter is an application developed in Objective-C, so the code is going to display here helps to implement those functions into iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad developments as well. Don't forget to do a quick review of the Twitter API where few libraries and implementations could be found. Well, let's get started.

Mittratter - Twitter Client for OSX

Yesterday, I was writing about the Twitter oAuth Authentication Method, well today I will release Mittratter, it is a simple Twitter Client developed with Objective-C and XCode. It took me few hours of development to understand the way oAuth works, Twitter and available documentation about it.

With the App running, I will give an example how exactly this works: