Didn’t expect my Kasvopus app to get that much attention when I released it on last Saturday. There are already over two thousand users according to Facebook app statistics. So maybe I wasn’t alone in need of Facebook app for the Maemo and Symbian devices.
Previous version (0.9.2) was more like a alpha preview (and so is 0.9.3) to get some feedback from the users. There are now over hundred comments on the Kasvopus app page. Most of them are related to installation and authentication problems. Hopefully the Qt 4.7.2 will be included in the future firmware updates so that wouldn’t need users to install development versions of the Qt libraries.

Kasvopus uses WebView component for the authentication and it seems that N900 didn’t render the authentication pages in the same way as e.g. N8. So in this new version I changed the authentication page to use Facebook login page’s “wap” version which hopefully now shows the “Authenticate” button to all users and devices.
This new version also has the following changes:
- Show notifications on startup (notifications can’t still be marked as read)
- Smaller lower toolbar for the “Share status” button
- “Kasvopus” title acts as a menu button to show:
- Home feed icon
- Friends list icon
- User wall icon
- Events icon
- Friends and events lists are really basic and they don’t even have paging yet
- Events view only show your current events without further details
Hope you like it! Go download new Kasvopus 0.9.3 files from http://kasvopus.com