TwimGo with Read it Later support (N9/N950)

Posted on Monday, December 26, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

Update: Maemo and Symbian binaries are now also available for download!

Few months have passed since the last releases. We are starting to build a house so that project will take some of my spare time every now and then.

During the last few days I have coded TwimGo v3.0.9 which includes something new: Read it Later support, which makes it easy to store interesting links so that you can read them later for example with another device. It works like this:

Open tweet which includes interesting link
Click “Read it Later…”
Read it Later opens in browser and you can add tags if you want
Press “Save”

There are also few other fixes and improvements in TwimGo 3.0.9:

Read it Later support – You can now easily add interesting links to your Read it Later list so you can read them on better time with your computer or tablet
Translations – There are now few translation like Turkey, Finnish, Italian and Swedish
Slightly larger profile picture in profile view – Requested in issue #46
Loading indicator is now using platform style busy indicator from Qt Quick Components
Location sharing fixed on N9 and N950

Download binary to your N9 and N950 from: https://projects.developer.nokia.com/twimgo

I’ll post Symbian and Maemo binaries soon too.

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Kasvopus v1.2 – Facebook app’s new face

Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

Toolbar extended to show two lines of icons.

Previous version of Kasvopus used the toolbar menu which was located in the top of the screen. In the long run I felt it was rather painful to use since if you hold your phone with one hand in portrait mode it’s quite hard to press any buttons that are on top of the screen.

With this release of Kasvopus I moved the menu items from top to bottom and removed the whole top bar. Now most of the shortcuts are always visible, Home, Friends, Profile and Status. When you press “More” icon the toolbar slides upwards and reveals second line of icons. This feels much better to use compared to previous version.

The v1.2 also includes the following:

Pull down to refresh home feed
Scroll down will trigger “load more” automatically
No more 403 errors when commenting statuses
App icon should work better on Symbian devices

Download new version to your Maemo (Nokia N900), Symbian^1 and Symbian^3 devices from: http://projects.developer.nokia.com/kasvopusиконииконописikoniсвети георги

TwimGo v3.0.6 Released

Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

Coded a minor update to TwimGo this weekend. Release notes for v3.0.6:

Pull down timeline to refresh
Scroll to bottom to automatically load more tweets
Reply to direct message is sent as direct message

It was pretty easy to add the auto “load more” functionality as both GridView (used in landscape mode) and ListView (portait mode) have a property atYEnd to check if user have scrolled to bottom of the timeline. I added a simple Timer that checks this property in every 0,5 seconds and starts to load more tweets if necessary.

Pull down to refresh was a bit trickier but I ended up checking the atYBeginning property of ListView/Gridview and deterimine the extra pull with the contentY property. So the code is something like this:

Timer {
  interval: 500
  repeat: true
  onTriggered: {
    if( tweetsList.atYBeginning &&
        tweetsList.contentY<-50 ) {
      tweetsList.refresh = true;
    }
  }
}

ListView {
  id: tweetsList
  property bool refresh: false
  ..
  onMovingChanged: {
    if(tweetsList.refresh) {
      tweetsList.refresh = false;
      // Refresh timeline
    }
  }
}

Now you can pull down the view to easily refresh your timeline. Older tweets are also automatically loaded when you scroll to the bottom.

If you’d like to help and test this release, please download your deb (MeeGo and Maemo) or SIS (Symbian S^3 and S60 FP5) files from TwimGo project page:

http://projects.developer.nokia.com/twimgo

TwimGo is back in the game

Posted on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

If you have used TwimGo recently you might have noticed that direct messages (DM) section doesn’t work anymore on the app since Twitter dropped the support for xAuth protocol which TwimGo was using. Direct messages are now only available when OAuth 1.0 is used for user authentication.

This isn’t the first time Twitter is making huge breaking changes in their API: last summer they dropped the basic HTTP authentication support which forced developers either to jump to OAuth or a bit easier xAuth protocols.

So it took a month until I really took the bull by the horns and started to look at what it meant if I’ll upgrade my API code to full OAuth 1.0. All API related code in TwimGo is written in JavaScript so I thought that it might be a bit tricky to get that working but it turned out to be really easy as xAuth already was implementing the hardest parts like signatures. Also now that I was able to use QML’s WebView component for OAuth authentication it was matter of hours to have TwimGo to show me my tweets.

I also made a bit smaller improvements and changes in this release:

OAuth support
Annoying sound notification removed
Optional light theme
Improved speed (Harmattan N950/N9)
Rounded corners in UI (Harmattan N950/N9)
Nokia Pure Symbols

TwimGo 3.0 includes new optional lighter theme

Please download the latest binaries for MeeGo Harmattan, Maemo, Symbian^3 and S60 FP5 from the project site: projects.developer.nokia.com/twimgo

Leave a comment how it works on your phone!

Get Things Done with MeeToDo

Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

I like to get things done. Sometimes there are just too many things in your “inbox” so you’ll better write them down. If you follow something like Getting Things Done (GTD) method your to-do tool should support categories or hierarchies.

I’ve written few GTD apps before like Mobile Task Manager (Java ME) and TaskFlow (Widget) and now that I received my lovely Nokia N950 I had to make an app for that too and obvious technology was Qt Quick as that also gets things done :)

So, here is the first alpha version of the to-do / GTD app called MeeToDo. It currently has minimal set of features: Lists and tasks. User can add new tasks pretty fast and can mark them done with a single tap. There is also a “purge” features which I find handy e.g. doing grocery shopping.

I tried to follow the analog user interface of the best GTD tool, paper and pen. Main view shows user a page from notebook with list of task lists. When list is selected it jumps on the right hand page. When single task is selected or added it animates a page flip and shows a task page.