OAuth + Twitter on Android: Callback fails

Question

My Android application uses Java OAuth library, found here for authorization on Twitter. I am able to get a request token, authorize the token and get an acknowlegement but

Answer 1

Twitter does not honor callbacks requested in OAuth requests (Twitter API Announce) and will only redirect to the callback URL specified in the Application Settings (note that "localhost" is not allowed).

I assume you checked Oauth-callback-on-android question.

Android guesswork--
After a bit of reading up, I see Android browser redirects MyApp:/// to your application and I'm guessing Twitter doesn't like this bespoke URI prefix. I'm no android developer but one suggestion I might make is to get "www.myapp.com" on the web and have a re-redirect there.

So have your OAuth return to http://www.myapp.com/redirect.aspx?oauth_token=abc and have that page redirect to myapp:///oauth_token=... (the desired result)

Answer 2

My problem was that I was trying to log in with the same account I made the Twitter app. After I logged in with my personal profile the call back works (so far).

Answer 3

It looks to me like you're doing the correct thing and Twitter is screwing up by always accepting your registered callback URL. Is there any way to change the registered URL? Maybe you could re-register and try an Android callback next time, see what happens.

Answer 4

In my case, i have this working:

 String authURL = m_provider.retrieveRequestToken (m_consumer, CALLBACK_URL);

And in the Manifest:

    <activity android:configChanges = "keyboardHidden|orientation" android:name = "xxxx.android.xxxxx"> 
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name   = "android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <data android:scheme="myapp" android:host="tweet" />
        </intent-filter>

In this case the callback url will be: myapp://tweet