Tweet Sheet and Android....Sad Face!

WbokoWboko Tennessee, USAMember, PRO Posts: 621
edited July 2014 in Business and Marketing Theory

Well I did not know till today when Amazon rejected "Wboko Odyssey" that the Tweet sheet does not work in Android... Sad Face!

But, I found somewhat of a work around and want to share it with you all...

Use the "Open URL" behavior (sorry pro only) and add the following link:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=PLEASE TEXT YOU WANT TO USE.

That will send the customer to twitter with the text you add for them to tweet. Sorry I did not find a quick fix for the image yet, but maybe the GS team with have some of these things sorted soon.

It is not perfect, but it works for now.

Good luck!

Wboko

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  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394

    Lord only knows why this was only integrated with iOS!

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  • WbokoWboko Tennessee, USAMember, PRO Posts: 621

    Only thing I can figure is they are using the IOS API to do the work for the tweet sheet....

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  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394

    Yup they are doing that but not sure why didn't look at the Android API as well. Seems amateurish to say you support publishing for these different platforms yet the behaviours don't work on some of them!

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  • WbokoWboko Tennessee, USAMember, PRO Posts: 621

    Now that is a true statement @beefy_clyro!

    I am hoping with the new playtogether deal things will get better.....

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  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394

    To me it just means focus will now be on that and things like this will be left as is :(

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  • LuMa GamesLuMa Games USAMember Posts: 129

    was this fixed?

  • Agent ArgyleAgent Argyle Member, PRO Posts: 188
    edited May 2015

    Thanks for the workaround.

    Tweet Sheet Still does not work for me on Android using Creator 0.13.14 on Mac, as of 05/28/2015. I am a bit miffed as I paid for PRO because I wanted access to this feature among other things. The fact that it doesn't work across platforms is frustrating.

    Is there an attribute we can use to determine which OS the user is running to put in a rule so that we can use the tweet sheet for iOS and the open URL behaviour with Android?

  • BlackCloakGSBlackCloakGS Member, PRO Posts: 2,250

    this will be fixed in 0.14

  • Agent ArgyleAgent Argyle Member, PRO Posts: 188
    edited May 2015

    Thanks. In the meantime, any idea how to add hashtags to the content in the open URL behavior? The url interprets them as anchors so they don't wind up in the resulting tweet. For example, "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=TEXT YOU WANT TO USE #gamesalad" ends up with the tweet: TEXT YOU WANT TO USE. I've tried using the escape html character & # 3 5 ; (spaces added so it will show up here) in place of the #, but the result is the same and single quotes around the # just produce an invalid expression.

  • HopscotchHopscotch Member, PRO Posts: 2,782
    edited May 2015

    @cousinisaac,

    # = %23

    and replace the spaces with %C2%A0

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  • Agent ArgyleAgent Argyle Member, PRO Posts: 188

    I ended up using an @ instead of a # as a workaround- not ideal but at least it works and I can still see how many people tweet. Now however, I find the URL behavior only works on Android. I could fork the game into two different versions- one for Android and one for iOS, but that would cause all kinds of headaches. Is there any way to tell which platform the user is on? If not directly then perhaps by screen size?

  • Agent ArgyleAgent Argyle Member, PRO Posts: 188
    edited May 2015

    OK I think I may have figured it out- I tried putting both the Tweetsheet and OpenURL into an onTouch rule and iOS uses the tweetsheet behavior and Android opens the URL. However, now, after I close the tweet, none of the touch events on the page work...

    Edit: Unchecked "Use embedded browser" in the OpenURL behavior and that did the trick.

  • gingagaminggingagaming FREELANCE GS DEV Member Posts: 1,685

    @cousinisaac said:
    Thanks. In the meantime, any idea how to add hashtags to the content in the open URL behavior?

    To enter custom text and symbols, simply goto this site:

    http://www.sharelinkgenerator.com/

    and enter the text you want to tweet and the paste it into the open url behaviour starting with the following URL:

    https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=

    As for detecting platforms, we can't do that. But what I do is put an attribute in you game called game.platform and I run rules that fire platform related behaviours like tweet sheet and more games links. For example I put if game.platform=1 use tweet sheet and if game.platform=2 use open url. Then you can build a single build for multi platforms and all you do is before you publish, simply change the platform attribute to the corresponding platform your publishing. In general I use 1=Apple 2=Google Play 3=Amazon. This works great when messing about with rate buttons and more games links to your developer account.

  • Agent ArgyleAgent Argyle Member, PRO Posts: 188
    edited November 2015

    I'm just coming back to this after a while so thanks @gingagaming for your reply.

    @BlackCloakGS wrote:

    this will be fixed in 0.14

    I assume that was referring to the OS attribute which now works great and not tweet sheet for Android. Any idea when that might happen?

    In the meantime, it looks like there is no need to use an escape character in the url for # with the hashtag per https://dev.twitter.com/web/tweet-button/web-intent - a url like https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=hello+world&hashtags=hastag1,hashtag2 will do.

    Now I am trying to find a way to post images in tweets in Android, but it looks like the web intent API doesn't really support this. Perhaps a workaround would be to post a url to an image instead, or maybe an "in-reply-to."

    Edit #1: Adding a URL just posts the url in the tweet itself. Perhaps in-reply-to is a better option.

    Edit #2: Well, the in-reply-to argument doesn't seem to work for me at all so I guess it is back to the drawing board.

    Edit #3: Found this tutorial: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2015/02/11/how-to-make-a-tweetable-image-in-your-blog-post/ - will see if it works and report back...

    Edit #4: YES! It worked! The final url looks like this in the expression editor:

    "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=This is the message&hashtags=hashtag1,hashtag2&url=http%3A%2F%2F pic.twitter.com/yh2ZUs8CDL"

  • smurftedsmurfted Member, PRO Posts: 586

    Does tweet sheet now work on android?

  • smurftedsmurfted Member, PRO Posts: 586

    anyone?

  • RabidParrotRabidParrot Formally RabidParrot. Member Posts: 956

    @smurfted Have you tried it?

  • smurftedsmurfted Member, PRO Posts: 586

    I did. From my test apk when i clicked the button, nothing... :'(

  • smurftedsmurfted Member, PRO Posts: 586

    Why wouldn't this work?

  • chaosmasterrochaosmasterro Member, PRO Posts: 51

    No idea, but I found out the hard way that this still does not work for Android.

  • gingagaminggingagaming FREELANCE GS DEV Member Posts: 1,685

    UPDATE There is a work around now for this now. I recently found a way to post to Facebook and Twitter (pictures included!) just like the tweet sheet did including your scores. (Previously you couldn't post scores to Twitter on android only via tweet sheet on iOS). I'm away from my office right now but I'll knock up a sample project for those wanting this feature and post it tomorrow. This method will post to both iOS and android and is capable of posting both live scores and pics to both Facebook and Twitter from both iOS and Android.

  • gingagaminggingagaming FREELANCE GS DEV Member Posts: 1,685

    @Wboko @beefy_clyro @LuMa Games @Agent Argyle @smurfted @chaosmasterro

    Here is a current workaround with project attached here:

    http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/93309

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