Using Social Share APIs in Nokia Asha SDK 1.1 (21Nov 4pmUTC)

This webinar has introduced the Social Share API. It enables us to share content with social media like facebook, twitter, google+, etc. This API is a convenient overlay to JSR-211 conceived to enable the users to perform simple social sharing of content.

For the developers it provides a built-in feature of Share API through content handler (JSR-211) and the arguments that it supports are url, text and id for fastlane integration. The mime types that can be registered are:
- image/* or specific image types
- audio/* or specific audio types
- video/* or specific video types - text/plain type

The Share API has limitation on destinations but there is no limit on size or types. Therefore it enable us to share content from the midlet or by calling the midlet outside from the fastlane that requires a previous registry of the app.

Oauth 2.0 based authentication support enable us to get access to server resources on behalf of the resource owner. It secures the open authorization protocol. The authentication process is handled by calling the Nokia browser. Such a invocations is performed through the Content Handler Browser. The process returns the access token that enable the MIDlet app to use that access token further for every share operation.



Use unicode base emoticons in content sharing. Emoji is a japanese term which represents a picture. It commonly expresses an idea as a visual icon in messaging Standard Unicode. Now it has been added to the API and it can be employed when the user want to send a message.


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