The socialinvocation sample shows you how to invoke Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn with all the currently supported invocation parameters. You can set your Facebook status, compose a Tweet, upload a picture, invoke a Facebook page or Twitter profile, and much more!

Besides being an avenue for seeing cute pictures of your high school friends’ kids, social media plays an important role in marketing your apps. Use the invocation framework features to direct users to your company’s Facebook page, display your Twitter feed, or allow users to post screenshots of your app! Effectively employing social media is a great way to attract new users, so be sure to take advantage of the invocation framework’s support of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Luckily for them, sharing content from your BlackBerry WebWorks app just got super easy.

While browsing through our ever-growing catalogue of Sample Apps on GitHub, I realized we were missing some crucial Invocation samples for Facebook and Twitter! “Blasphemy,” you say?! I agree, so here is some quick info about how you can share data to Facebook and Twitter from your app.

With only a few lines of JavaScript, you can invoke these two lovely cards.

…and here’s the code:

function invokeTwitter() {
    blackberry.invoke.invoke({
        target: "Twitter",
        action: "bb.action.SHARE",
        type: "text/plain",
        data: "In @chadtatro we trust."
    }, onSuccess, onError);
}
function invokeFacebook() {
    blackberry.invoke.invoke({
        target: "Facebook",
        action: "bb.action.SHARE",
        type: "text/plain",
        data: "I’m eating tacos with Alex."
    }, onSuccess, onError);
}

All memes and jokes aside, the invocation framework is incredibly powerful. Integrating it in to your application is another simple way for you to provide that genuine BlackBerry 10 “look and feel” to your users.

For the full sample app, check out our GitHub repository.

If you have any question, concerns, or just want to show your love, you can find me on Twitter at @chadtatro. (
http://twitter.com/chadtatro
)