I think you should download the Facebook and Twitter APIs and just create a nice regular layout of the views you populate with data. For instance. a simple ListView or ScrollView that you add to the template with some text and image (if available in the message) using the adapter. That way you can make it look the way you want, and it is also quite simple. There are tutorials on using the API on the websites https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk and http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554648/FrontPage .