Twid¶

1. First, click here to download the standalone server launcher and double-click on the file once it has been downloaded. Click on the start button and wait for the light to turn green.

2. Open the Usergrid Admin Console by clicking on the top-right icon of the launcher app (Step 1).

_{Usergrid Console icon.}

3. Let’s create the application. Go ahead and click on New Application as indicated in the next figure:

4. Enter twid as the app name.

5. We need to create a user that is going to be our test user to log in to our Twid app. Make sure your console has Twid as the active app (if it’s not, click on the drop-down (1) ) and click on the Users box (on the left side of the console (2) ).

6. Click on the New User button:

7. Enter the user info as indicated (enter your own password) and click on Create button when you are done:

So far, we’ve created our app called twid as well as a user account associated with the app. We will use that user account to log into our new app using a mobile app that can be run in a browser.

8. Now you need to launch Safari or Google Chrome. In case of Google Chrome it should be launched this way (shut it down if it is already running):

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --allow-file-access-from-files

The special launch options are necessary because Chrome has additional security restrictions that will prevent the app from being able to make network connections.

9. Paste this url or just click on it: http://usergrid.github.com/samples/Twid/index.html?api_url=http://localhost:8080

10. Log in to Twid by entering the information we used to create our user account in the step 7 and click on the Save button located on the bottom-right area.

11. Let’s post a message. Click on the top-right icon in order to create a new message, write a message and send it.

Note: The message should appear in the Message Board within few seconds.

12. Now for Twid to act as Twitter we need to follow another user. Repeat the steps 5, 6 & 7 but this time name the user twid-test2.

13. Get back to our Twid app window and add twid-test as a follower of twid-test2 Click OK to confirm.

14. Open a tab in same browser or in another window and log in as twid-test2: http://usergrid.github.com/samples/Twid/index.html?api_url=http://localhost:8080 and post a message as indicated in step 11.

16. Get back to the window where twid-test1 was logged in. twid-test will see the message sent by twid-test2.

You can now look at the source for Twid on GitHub at:

http://usergrid.github.com/samples