CJ Lippstreu over at PocketNow.com has features Twaddle. You can read the article over at the site. PocketNow being rather popular caused a bit of a surge in the number of downloads, followers and authentications for Twaddle.
As a result we now have over 300 users! Unfortunately, due to my recent house move (and lack of broadband) I don’t have any updated pictures to post as a “Thanks guys!”
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.
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.
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.
Anyway, if you have any feedback, suggestions, criticisms or problems, please let me know and I’ll do my best to address your issues.
It’s that time again – a new build is out. 0.13 is a minor update that fixes a few crashing issues that may have caused some issues. Additionally downloading your friends avatars requires far less CPU usage which gives much better responsiveness (especially noticeable when downloading many new avatars at once).
Finally I’ve introduced AppToDate support – you can grab AppToDate from http://www.apptodate.org/get. For those that don’t know AppToDate is a simple – but effective – application for making sure you have the latest version of applications on your Windows Mobile device.
You can grab the newest version in several ways;
Alternatively you can always visit http://get.twaddle.mobi in your phone’s browser to download the most current version of Twaddle at any given time.
Finally, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.
It is with much chagrin that I announce 0.1.2 of Twaddle. This minor release includes a greatly optimised code path for retrieving your friends list – this is particularly noticeable when you manually refresh the list. The new version updates my friends list in ~10 seconds (most of which is spent waiting for Twitter.com and parsing the XML response) compared to 0.1.1’s ~60 seconds. These saved 50 seconds represent time your Pocket PC could be going back to sleep – essential for good battery life.
Secondly, this release will not crash when one of your friends’ most recent update is an @reply to someone with protected updates that you do not have access to.
As with last time there’s two available download mechanisms;
Alternatively, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.
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.
I’m incredibly happy – and proud – to announce the release of 0.1.1 of Twaddle. Features included in this release are;
Currently I’ve only tested / developed Twaddle for Pocket PC based devices (also known as Windows Mobile Professional devices / Windows Mobile devices with a touch screen). A Smart Phone version might be supported at a later date.
There are two available downloads;
Alternatively, if you have Microsoft Tag Reader (visit gettag.mobi on your phone’s browser) installed on your phone you can scan the tag below.
If you’ve installed Twaddle and found it useful and would like to help support it’s development please consider donating via PayPal.
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!