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First screenshots of Twaddle / WP7

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

As mentioned a couple of weeks ago I have discontinued Twaddle for Windows Mobile in favour of working on Twaddle for Windows Phone 7. Without further ado, I present a series of screenshots of the new Twaddle;

My home timeline – this is the main screen of Twaddle. You can see the pivot control being used which allows the user to swipe to see mentions, messages, etc

Send tweet – Here you’ll see the character count indicator. This will show once you’re near the Twitter length limit. It’s a similar experience to the SMS screen.

Attaching pictures – here you can launch the picture chooser (and preview the result). This allows you to upload a picture from your library or snap a new one

Replying to a tweet – When you’re replying to a tweet you’ll see the original tweet in the update screen. I find this useful as you don’t have to remember exactly what the other person said

Settings screen – Or at least, part of it. I think you can all guess what this screen does. Enable/disable push notifications of different types, as well as Live Tile updates. These features are still being tweaked, but work fairly well for now

The future of Twaddle

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

I think it’s probably pretty obvious, but thought I’d post an “official” update: I will no longer be developing Twaddle for Windows Mobile.

But it’s not all bad news: I have already begun “porting” Twaddle to Windows Phone 7. The good news is that both WP7 and Windows Mobile have .Net at their core and Twaddle was written in such a way to separate the UI from the logic. As such I’ve made good progress on porting Twaddle. Additionally, it’s the UI of Twaddle that was always pretty poor (in my opinion), and the new controls in WP7 have so far made the UI a breeze.

I don’t have any screenshots suitable for public consumption at the moment but shall post some shortly.

If you have any major issues with Twaddle for Windows Mobile, let me know, and I’ll see if I can release an update, but I won’t be actively updating it.