Twitter Authentication through Android's AccountManager classes

Question

I am developing an android application and want to integrate Twitter.

What I understand is if on user\'s device, official android Twitter app is installed then we ca

Answer 1

The com.twitter.android.oauth.token and com.twitter.android.oauth.token.secret credentials returned by Android's AccountManager only authenticate using Twitter's official Consumer Key and Secret. AFAIK They're not actually useful to third party developers.

With respect to Twitter I'll just say the official Consumer Key/Secret pair is "out there", and if Twitter changed them via an app update they'd break OAuth for every user without that app update.