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iOS Development: How can I shorten a URL from my code?

I'm building an iPhone app and I'd like to include functionality that allows users to login to twitter and tweet a link to my app. In order to do this, however, the tweet will need to shorten the URL to my app on the App Store. How can I write code to shorten a URL for a tweet?

I've done a search for this and found a tutorial on iCodeBlog, as well as some questions posted on SO, however, they're all either more work than I think is needed or they're using http://api.tr.im, which is no longer available. I'm hoping there's a newer approach to this that is as simple as the iCodeBlog solution.

Thanks for your wisdom!

Solution

  • I just google a few minutes because I'm also interested in that topic. And I found this: TinyURL API I think that's the easiest way to implement something like this. I think I'll write a little class for this to use it in further projects. :-D