Yesterday I promised that screenshots and a build would be posted shortly. Well, in order to fulfil that I present a series of images! I’ve tried to get a selection of images which demonstrate various features of Twaddle. As I’ve tried to make sure that no one on my friends list has their privacy violated some features do not show up very well. This not only covers your friends, but anyone that they post an @reply to as well.
Your Tweets (Portrait)
The author’s current Tweets. Unfortunately all my test tweets tend to be fairly short so you cannot see that the individual items will flow and use up as much room as they require. Additionally my test user has the default avatar
Your Tweets (Landscape)
This is the same view as above but in landscape orientation. Twaddle will automatically reflow items when the orientation changes. It should also work across a variety of resolutions (I use a HTC Touch Pro which is higher DPI / resolution device)
Location Support
The focus of this screenshot is the context menu and the selected tweet. You’ll note the selected tweet ends with the text L:-33…,151…. Twaddle has recognised that as a set of GPS co-ordinates and the context menu includes a “View Location” item which will launch your default browser and show the location in Google Maps
Geo Tagging
There’s a couple of features to take in here. First of all, we’re getting a glimpse of the reply functionality of Twaddle. It’s automatically inserted the nick of the user we’re talking to and it shows the user’s avatar as well as the tweet we’re replying to. Secondly you can see that I’ve brought up the option to GeoTag this post. Currently GeoTagging is implemented by looking up your current mobile (cell) tower’s information in Google’s database. This means that GeoTagging will work on devices without a GPS chip. It is however less accurate. Future versions will likely provide the option to use GPS instead of Google
SIP Support
I think this screenshot flows on nicely from the previous shot – it’s the reply / post interface but this time showing the Software Input Panel (for devices without hardware keyboards). Compared to the previous image you can see that the text of the item we’re replying to flows differently. Additionally the entire interface has resized to accommodate the SIP. One final thing is the indicator for the number of characters you have left in your tweet
Short URL (Is.Gd) support
Still in the reply / post dialog this time showing the short URL integration. This is provided through is.gd and comes in two flavours: First, you can select text in this view and replace it with a short URL. Secondly you can copy a URL from elsewhere and when pasting the URL you can have it automatically replaced with a short URL.
Popup Notifications
Finally away from the post / reply interface. This time into the popup notifications provided by Twaddle. When a new tweet is received by Twaddle it will optionally perform popup notifications which provide an interface for replying and retweeting. I find this is really handy when I’ve been busy as a nice way to quickly catch up on what my friends have been doing.
That’s all the screenshots for now. There’s a lot more beneath the surface, but going over some of it becomes tedious. Additionally some features can’t be shown in screenshots (like finger scrolling through tweets).
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Use Twikini now and would love to try this, but the thing that would make me change in a heartbeat is support for ow.ly integration. I use ow.ly and track stats for clicks.
There’s been a few requests for different URL shortening services (bit.ly, ow.ly, etc). So in a future version I’ll look at providing support for these services in a configurable way. It probably won’t be for a while though.