Tweeting with TwimGo 2.7.0

Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

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.

TwimGo 2.6 with auto-refresh, colored tweets etc.

Posted on Sunday, February 6, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

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.

TwimGo Qt Preview Release (v2.5)

Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

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 :)

Happy Tweeting! You can find me at @tlaukkanen

p.s. Here is a small video preview of TwimGo 2.5 running on N8

Happy Holidays! TwimGo 2.1 for N900 and soon N8

Posted on Saturday, December 25, 2010 by Tommi Laukkanen

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Few weeks ago I received a brand new Nokia N8 from Nokia Nordic as an award as my first game, Blockers, reached 10k downloads in a week in Ovi Store.

Since I started using N8, I quickly converted my Twitter client, TwimGo, easily to Symbian WRT. I only had to package the application differently but I could use the same code without changes that I wrote for N900.

Just few days ago I released a new version 2.1 for the Nokia N900 which you can download from twimgo.com app site. Nokia N8 version should be available through Ovi Store within few weeks. It’s just waiting for Ovi Store QA check before it is published.

Here’s a small preview video of TwimGo running on Nokia N8:

TwimGo with Location Support

Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 by Tommi Laukkanen

It’s already a week since last release of TwimGo. Last release included the clickable user tags and improved follow/unfollow functionality.

On last Tuesday I went to Tampere MeeGo Network MeetUp and I had an opportunity to talk to Qt Web Runtime developer, Xizhi Zhu. We talked briefly about the location support in current version of Qt WRT and a day later I had a good instructions on how to use the location API in my apps.

Here you can see how you can easily add your current location to your tweets in TwimGo:

1. Click the “Get your location” button in tweet dialog

2. Now your phone starts to pickup GPS signal

3. Once the GPS signal is good enough it’ll show your current coordinates. You can click the button again and it will update the coordinates. Sometimes the GPS signal gets accurate in a minute so you could refresh your location just before tweeting.