Using custom login button with Twitter Fabric?

Question

I have been trying to use a normal button to execute the authentication process with the twitter sdk but it does not seem to work. Anyone have tried anything similar?

Answer 1

Since Fabric doesn't allow theming yet, we should assume that we'll have to write potentially throw away code to get this to work. As such, I prefer less code to more code when I know I won't be keeping it.

Luis's solution will work fine, but my UI was done, with a button already, and I just wanted that button to work. Here's how I accomplished this.

Drop in the TwitterLoginButton, as requested by the Fabric wizard, but set it to visibility: gone

Pull the reference of the loginButton in your Activity (also part of Fabric setup - nothing new here):

loginButton = (TwitterLoginButton) findViewById(R.id.twitter_login_button);

Finally, for my existing button, I added a click listener, which simply delegated the click event over to the twitter login button.

myLoginButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            loginButton.performClick();
        }
    });

Worked like a charm.