Posts Tagged ‘0.2’

0.2 is nearly here!

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m excited to announce that Twaddle 0.2 is nearly here. I now consider 0.2 to be feature complete and am now going through the process of final testing before I release it. I’m hoping to have 0.2 released in time for Christmas (if only so I can lounge about and play computer games instead of coding), but can’t promise anything.

A partial list of features, to whet your appetite, include;

  • A revamped interface
  • Viewing mentions
  • Sending, receiving and viewing direct messages
  • Speed improvements
  • Better UTF8 support

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Why the delay?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

I’d hoped to have a 0.2 of Twaddle out by now, unfortunately that’s not been the case.

First off, I recently moved house which took a fair amount of time and effort to get packed / unpacked and have DSL connected at my new place. In addition to this I’ve had a few Uni assignments which took away even more time. In amongst all this my computer chair broke… I’ve purchased a new chair which won’t arrive for another 4 – 8 weeks. The dining chair I’m using in the mean time places a lot of strain on my back meaning I can only code for short periods of time.

Secondly, I’ve put a lot of work into making Twaddle a lot faster. On my HTC Touch Pro rotating the screen redraws virtually straight away and Twaddle continues to be responsive throughout the whole process. A vastly improved algorithm for laying out tweets (50 tweets get laid out in ~150ms on my phone) as well as moving non-visible layouts to a background process ensures Twaddle remains responsive throughout rotations. I’m still working on improving the speed of performing updates.

Long story short: 0.2 won’t be released as soon as I’d hoped as I’m putting a lot of work into it to ensure it far eclipses previous versions of Twaddle.

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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.

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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.

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