How do I use the Google URL Shortener API on Android?

Question

After much fiddling with trying to import the libraries myself, I finally managed to find out that I can do so using the Google Plugin for Eclipse, here.

However, I

Answer 1

1. add to your manifest in application node:

2. add folowing libraries:

google-api-client-1.17.0-rc.jar

google-api-client-android-1.17.0-rc.jar

google-api-services-urlshortener-v1-rev22-1.17.0-rc.jar

google-http-client-1.17.0-rc.jar

google-http-client-android-1.17.0-rc.jar

3. method:

      String shorten(String longUrl){
   
      Urlshortener.Builder builder = new Urlshortener.Builder (AndroidHttp.newCompatibleTransport(), AndroidJsonFactory.getDefaultInstance(), null);
      Urlshortener urlshortener = builder.build();
   
       com.google.api.services.urlshortener.model.Url url = new Url();
       url.setLongUrl(longUrl);
       try {
          url = urlshortener.url().insert(url).execute();
           return url.getId();
       } catch (IOException e) {
           return null;
      }
   }