Phonegap Service Tutorial - Part 3 - TwitterService.java - newTweet

TwitterService.java

private Boolean newTweet() {
   Boolean result = false;
   String oldMaxID = getMaxID();
   String newMaxID = oldMaxID;

   HttpClient httpClient;
   HttpGet getMethod;
   HttpResponse response;
   InputStream responseStream;

   try {
      httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
      getMethod = new HttpGet("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=phonegap&rpp=1&page1");
      response = httpClient.execute(getMethod);
      responseStream = response.getEntity().getContent();

      StringBuilder dataString = new StringBuilder();
      char[] buffer = new char[1024];
      Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(responseStream, "UTF-8");
      int charCount;
      while ((charCount = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0){
         dataString.append(buffer, 0, charCount);
      }

      JSONObject data = new JSONObject(dataString.toString());
      if (data.has("max_id_str")) {
         newMaxID = data.getString("max_id_str");

         if (!newMaxID.equals(oldMaxID)) {
            setMaxID(newMaxID);
            result = true;
         }
      }
   } catch (Exception ex) {
      // Do something with the error in production code
   } finally {
      // Close out the response stream and any open connections in production code
   }
   
   return result;
}