Social Media Aggregator

One of the problems with having accounts on so many social media networks is keeping tabs on what's happening on each of them. With accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and so on, active users can spend a significant amount of time jumping from site to site, or app to app, reading the latest updates. In this chapter, we'll build a simple aggregator app that will pull the latest updates from each of the user's social media accounts and display them in one place. The features will include the following:

• Multiple accounts for a variety of social media networks:
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram
• Read-only, rich listings of social media posts
• Links to the appropriate site or app for a quick and easy follow-up
• Desktop and mobile versions

This project will cover the following:

• REST/HTTP clients
• JSON processing
• JavaFX and Android development

Given the size and scope of this effort, we'll actually do this in two chapters: JavaFX in the first, and Android in the second.