Archive for the 'MIDlet' Category

Twim v1.13 Released

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

I’m just finished up the last bits of code for Twim v1.13. This new release introduces new media services like MobyPicture. You can now also upload video files from Twim either to yFrog or Moby services. Here’s my sample video recorded with Nokia E71 in Mobypicture and in yFrog.
You can download latest version from Twim [...]

Favorites, yfrog and file based photo upload

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

I just finished up coding new features for Twim v1.12. New features in this release:

yfrog support
Favorites support
File based photo upload
Recent timeline not loaded on startup automatically (to reduce bandwidth usage)

With the latest release you can share your photos with yfrog service in addition to existing TwitPic and Twitgoo services. Now you can also send image [...]

New Twim with Twitgoo Support

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

New release of Twim is once again out of the door.
With the latest version (v1.11) you will gain the following new features:

Twitgoo support. Now you can take a photo and send it directly to Twitgoo service.
Retweet feature fills up the status update box with the selected tweet.
Clock is shown in the bottom of the menu [...]

You asked for it, You got it (TwitPic)

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

It seems that Twitter made some changes to their API since the Twim application just started to have some trouble when parsing the date stamps for the statuses. That turned out to be a simple bug that was causing it. The bug was fixed in a second but I couldn’t make a release before I [...]

Learning the git, Mobidentica now Open Source

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I’m learning to use the git, distributed version control system. It seems to be much faster then Subversion that I have used with my Google Code projects. I just created a repository on GitHub for Mobidentica project. Source code is available under the Apache License 2.0. If you like to clone the repository, use this:
git [...]

Optimizing Trail Recording

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

I coded a prototype how we could record fewer GPS positions in Mobile Trail Explorer and therefore save some memory but still have the same level of detail of the trail. Video might explain it best. Unoptimized recording is on the left and optimized trail is on the right.

The algorithm simply checks if the current [...]

Adding Laconi.ca support

Friday, March 20th, 2009

I just coded a new version of Mobidentica application. Now you can define custom service URL when logging in. This way you can use it with all services that are built on top of Laconi.ca platform. This is possible because Laconi.ca has built-in support for Twitter compatible API.
I just tried it with identi.ca and miggi.fi [...]

Mobile Trail Explorer v1.14

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

It took a while to make this release. There was some kinky issues with the S40 devices which caused them to crash on NoMethodFoundException (Issue 145). Release notes for v1.14:

New logo and icon (Thanks Ash)
Improved MapCache initialization time
Fixed information screen scrolling
Splash screen hang fix (Issue 106)
WGS84 coordinates in degrees and minutes (Issue 162, Thanks Marco [...]

Mobile Client for Identi.ca

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

My Twitter client, Twim, is getting a lot of positive feedback from users which is always nice to hear. There have also been few requests to create a version for Identi.ca service. Identi.ca is same soft of microblogging service as Twitter but maybe a bit different kind of users.
Today I spent few hours to create [...]

New Year and New Twim Release

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Here is my first software release for the year 2009. I just updated Twim client with the following new features:

Show direct messages
You can use unicode characters in your status updates
You can easily send direct messages from the menu

So if you are a Twitter fan then head yourself for example to Phoload page and download the [...]