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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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

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.

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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Nelisquare Pre Alpha Download for Nokia N900

Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

Now you can download the first pre alpha preview version of Nelisquare app. Nelisquare is a Foursquare client for Maemo and upcoming MeeGo devices. There might also be a version for Symbian^3 phones.

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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Nelisquare Preview Video

Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

I’ve started working on a simple Foursquare client, Nelisquare. It’s written in pure QML and JavaScript and plan is to have it working on the Maemo and MeeGo devices. It should run on Symbian^3 devices as well if really needed.