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200 Users!

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Earlier today Twaddle Twaddle ticked over to 200 users. Not too shabby at all. Considering that I’ve had some things going on in my personal life that have prevented me from working on, or evangelising, Twaddle as much as I’d like.

In the same spirit as the 100 user milestone I present a screenshot previewing 0.2.

0.2 Preview – Received Direct Messages

As I anticipated in the previous post I’ve moved the icon bar to the bottom of the application. I find this is much more finger friendly as you can navigate without obscuring the screen. Additionally you can see the list of Direct Messages my test account has received (as well as the icon of the sender and your icon as an overlay).

Someone commented in my previous post about the icons used in Twaddle: Yes, they suck. I’m not developer not an artist. If anyone is interested in providing icons / colour advice, please get in contact with me. I’d love to hear from you.

100 Users!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

In the last 8 hours the 100th user allowed Twaddle to communicate with Twitter on their behalf. It’s good to see people are finding Twaddle useful.

As my gift on this milestone I present… a screenshot from the 0.2 version of Twaddle.

0.2 Preview – New navigation and @Replies
In this screenshot we can see two new features of 0.2: First of all is the new navigation control. This is a bar of icons displayed along the top of the screen in the same vein as Microsoft’s Facebook application. I’m thinking I’ll move it to the bottom of the screen so there’s less distance for your finger to travel to get to it. Additionally the graphics used here are placeholder images – if anyone wants to volunteer to provide design services for Twaddle I’d love to hear from you. When you change which section of Twaddle you view you’ll get a textual overlay to indicate what you’re now viewing – in this screenshot I’m viewing my @Replies. The second feature, you may have picked up on, is the @Replies. In this view you can see several tweets people have targeted at me (I do apologise to those who are pictured)

Anyway, if you have any feedback, suggestions, criticisms or problems, please let me know and I’ll do my best to address your issues.

Get.Twaddle.Mobi

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

I’ve just created the new domain get.twaddle.mobi. Visiting http://get.twaddle.mobi in your phones browser will download the latest release of Twaddle straight to your phone for easy installation.

The release that’s downloaded will be kept in sync with the latest stable version of Twaddle.

Pending update

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

It’s funny, you test an application for several weeks and determine there’s no major bugs and go ahead and release it. Then on the day of release you experience a crashing bug didn’t occur previously resulting in egg on your face. Basically, when Twaddle gets updates from Twitter it looks at the list of tweets for any @replies. If it finds an @reply it checks who the target is and proceeds to download their information (if Twaddle does not already have it). Once this is done it can proceed to download that user’s avatar and create the schmick little overlays that you see in the various Twaddle views. Unfortunately there’s a slight problem… if an @reply is directed at a user who protects their updates, and you do not have access to those updates, Twaddle flails it’s arms in the air and crashes. Not cool, not cool all. Now that I’ve experienced the problem and know what it is I can fix it.

I also noticed that obtaining your friends list took way longer than it should. This will also be rectified in the next point release (0.1.2). As a result of this fix the first time you use 0.1.2 – or newer – you may notice that Twaddle takes a bit longer than usual to start up due to an update to the database used to store information. The upside of this is that Twaddle should update a lot quicker, resulting in better battery life, and generally a better user experience.

Expect the new version today or tomorrow.

Domain: Purchased!

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I’ve purchased this domain to host Twaddle builds as well as disseminate information about Twaddle. What it Twaddle, you ask? It’s a Twitter client for Windows Mobile focused on having a small foot print, being easy to use and reliable. Over the next few days I’ll post the first public build of Twaddle as well as some screen shots. Stay tuned!