Kit and Digits: New developer tools from Twitter

Twitter is making two major tools to be open-sourced with the project hosted on Github for public use. Twitter Kit and Digits for Android Developers brings a real-time conversational content and a powerful social identity to your applications. Six months ago, it released its first mobile SDK Twitter Kit to Android and had been overwhelmed by the response from the Android community.

On its blog, Twitter said it has "long respected the Android community's strong open source mindset" and is "excited to participate at a deeper level". By open-sourcing its two tools under permissive software license, Android developers can easily combine several features to users who already have Twitter accounts including a tweet composer for sharing-in app (e.g. a file or photos to social networks).

Using Twitter identifications, users are allowed to skip on creating another email and password combination and embedded tweets using Twitter Kit while Digits, which used to be part of Twitter Kit having a separate self-storage provides a phone number authentication feature which is ideal way of logging in. It is hassle free for those who don't have Twitter accounts with no intentions of creating an email and password combination.

You will have now access to twitter, twitter-core, tweet-ui, tweet-composer from their Twitter Kit repo on Github and in their Digits repo to digits. The advantage for developers of these two tools going open-sourced is that they can evaluate codes and report bugs and fixes as they appear.

Twitter is excited to see the next wave of great apps that developers have been building. They are now eager and looking forward to work with Android users to continuously improve Twitter Kit and Digits. Keep yourself updated with latest information for additional open source announcements in the coming months. Check out Twitter's Blog post for more hot tips and updates.