Main view with list of tweets.

It has been several months since the previous TwimGo update. Now as I was having a summer vacation I had more spare time on my hands to work on this update. Latest news about Jolla also might have increased the motivation for Qt development as we may see next chapter in MeeGo book after all :)

With this TwimGo upate I streamlined the UI so that toolbar now stays in the bottom of the screen also in tweet details and profile views. Toolbar contains the common actions that was previously available as separate buttons.

I got frustrated with the previous Read It Later support because it displayed the web page that wasn’t really required step. Now I switched to use official Pocket (old Read It Later) REST API so that it adds the link to your account instantly. Pocket credentials can be entered in Settings screen.

Tweet details view showing preview image for Instagram photos. Also showing new toolbar with common actions.

Some of people that I follow tend to post photos from Instagram and I got tired of jumping to Instagram page to see the photo so I added a preview functionality also for Instagram photos in addition to existing TwitPic and yFrog links.

Full release notes for v3.2 listed here:

• IMPROVEMENT: Added proper Pocket (Read It Later) support which adds link to your Pocket reading list instantly without clunky web page phase
• NEW: You can save your search
• NEW: Remove existing saved searches
• NEW: Show preview of Instagram photos
• NEW: Translate tweet to english – Yes, it always generates quite funny translations since people don’t tend to use good grammar in 140 characters :)
  • FIX: No more 401 access denied errors (At least I haven’t had those in a week with this version :)

Profile view

You can download the release binaries (MeeGo, Nokia N9 and Maemo, Nokia N900) from Nokia Project page:

MeeGo: twimgo_3.2.0_armel.deb

Maemo: twimgo_3_2_0_armel.deb

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the Remote Compiler to work in Qt Creator so I haven’t yet been able to compile versions for Symbian. I’m not able to authenticate via Qt Creator so that Remote Compiler would get active. This might be because of the recent changes in Nokia Developer site switching to single Nokia account for all of their services (which is nice). Hopefully that is sorted soon so I can build Symbian Belle binaries.сондажи за водаsondajiсондажи

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:

1. Open tweet which includes interesting link
2. Click “Read it Later…”
3. Read it Later opens in browser and you can add tags if you want
4. 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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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

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• 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

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!

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.

I compiled it to Symbian^3, Maemo (Nokia N900) and MeeGo Harmattan (Nokia N950 and N9). Please test it out and let me know what you think of it?

Download binaries from Nokia Developer Project site, here:

https://projects.developer.nokia.com/meetodo

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What I did was converted my Symbian^3 game, Blockers, for Series 40 screen size and packaged the game as stated in W3C standard. Unfortunately I don’t have a Series 40 phones myself but luckily Nokia also provides simulator with Nokia Web Tools for testing e.g. Series 40 Web Apps. The shown screenshot was taken from the simulator.

If you happen to have a Series 40  (especially Touch and Type) phone, I would be really interested on hearing how the game works on your phone!

Game can be downloaded from project site, here. …or direct link to .wgt file.

I started to develop the Nelisquare app for my Nokia N900 since it doesn’t have many Foursquare clients but since I use my N8 every now and then I also compiled a version for that too.

Download the early alpha version from Forum Nokia Projects site:

https://projects.forum.nokia.com/nelisquare

I’ll try to start using the repositories for distribution but at the moment you can download this preview from here:

• nelisquare_0.0.2_armel.deb

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