I’m getting lots of feedback from people not getting the previous TwimGo version to work on their phones. Now this infinite “Loading tweets” should be history. The following issues are now fixed in 2.7.3:
You can download the latest binaries (SIS or DEB) files from Forum Nokia Project page, here. Happy tweeting! Let me know if works any better then the previous version.
I spent last few days testing my recent changes to TwimGo, Qt based Twitter client. Now it uses darker theme which looks awesome on my N8 and N900 and should look magical on your E7′s ClearBlack screens (let me know how it looks :)). I also tweaked the buttons look&feel and I think that they look stunning now. I might release the Button component as separate QML file if you wish.
Now also the “Settings” menu option actually does something and you can now change the refresh interval and also enable the list view in landscape mode.
TwimGo is great to keep up with the MWC tweets. Hooked up my Nokia N900 to my big screen TV, activated the search for “MWC” and set the refresh interval from settings to “1 minute” :)
Go ahead and download this release to your N8, E7, N900, etc. phones from here.
Since Nokia’s Qt SDK 1.1 Technology Preview release I’ve found myself launching the Qt Creator pretty often on my Mac. The whole IDE along with plain QML Viewer are really stable so that I can be very productive on writing Qt Quick based apps.
During the last week I focused on adding bunch of new features to my Twitter client app, TwimGo. This new version includes the following changes:
Auto-login
Auto-refresh (5 minutes)
Indicator if new tweets were found on auto-refresh for home or mentions timelines
Fixed the bug of retweeting incorrect tweet
New mentions icon
Slightly colored tweets for own tweets (red) and mentions (green)
Small improvements to error handling: Twitter API errors are shown
N900: Minimize app by tapping top left corner
You can download the TwimGo 2.6 binaries from here. It runs on Nokia N900 and N8. It should also run on other Symbian^3 phones too which have Qt 4.7 installed. If you have installed great Nokia Bubbles app from Nokia Beta Labs recently then you’ll have Qt 4.7 already on your phone. I’ll try to publish this through Ovi Store soon.
Leave a comment if you have trouble with the release, find any bugs or have some ideas for improvements or new features! Happy Tweeting! Follow me for new releases: @tlaukkanen.
As I wrote last year that it’s good to follow the pragmatic programmer suggestion of learning a new programming language each year. Few years ago I named JavaScript as my language for that year and that was wise since now I’m able to craft mobile apps easily with help of JavaScipt and QML. This year I might dive more into some C++ too since it is so easy to switch between those three languages (QML, JS and C++) in the latest release of Qt SDK 1.1. C++ ain’t that odd to me since I did create some game and 3D engines with C++ and OpenGL ten years ago. Time flies…
I’ve been converting the TwimGo application to Qt Quick from the beginning of this year and now it’s starting to be in some shape. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as the WRT version but it gets the job done. It’s still missing something like auto refresh and proper error handling.
If you’d like to help me out and test how it works on your phones, then download application to your Nokia N8 (with Qt 4.7) or Nokia N900 from TwimGo project site: https://projects.forum.nokia.com/twimgo. I’ll upload the source code there too after I clean it up a little.
If, or when, you find some bugs you could report those as new tickets to the project with this link. One nasty bug is that application doesn’t load images on N900 on some sessions. This might be Qt related bug, QTBUG-15004.
This is a first time when I’m using Forum Nokia Projects for hosting my applications. Let’s see how that works out :)
TwimGo, Twitter client for Symbian touch phones was finally accepted to Ovi Store. You can download TwimGo from here: http://store.ovi.com/content/78596
It’s a bit odd that app can’t be found when searching with “TwimGo”. Ovi Store search engine might only be using app’s meta-data keywords for search index and I didn’t list “TwimGo” as one of the keywords. On the other hand I did use “Twitter” and “Social” as keywords but TwimGo is still not listed when you search with “twitter social”.
I’m getting lots of feedback from people not getting the previous TwimGo version to work on their phones. Now this infinite “Loading tweets” should be history. The following issues are now fixed in 2.7.3:
