StatusShare-Android

This application allows individual users to share text and photo updates with the other users of the service.

In particular this sample application highlights the following key backend tasks:

• Allow users to sign up and log in
• Create public/private shared data
• Link images to application data
• Connect on the client-side to 3rd party service (Gravatar)

Set up StatusShare Project

1. Download the StatusShare project.
2. Download ActionBarSherlock and in Eclipse, go File -> New -> Android Project from Existing Source and navigate to the ActionBarSherlock directory, and import it as a library project.
3. Download Kinvey's Android Library and get your app-key and app-secret from the Kinvey console, by signing up and then creating a new app.
4. In Eclipse, go to File → Import…
5. Click Android → Existing Android Code into Workspace
6. Browse… to set Root Directory to the extracted zip from step 1
7. In the Projects box, make sure the HomeActivity project check box ais selected. Then click Finish.
8. Right click on the newly created project, and select Properties, then select Android on the left. At the bottom of the window, under the Library section add ActionBarSherlock as a dependency.
9. Copy and paste the Kinvey Jars downloaded in step 3 into the /libs/ directory of the StatusShare project
10. Specify your app.key and app.secret in the property file located at assets/kinvey.properties

##License

Copyright (c) 2013 Kinvey Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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