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Twitter for android 2.0 review

Yuda — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:27:00 +0000

After read at engadget that there’s an update of twitter apps for android, I straightly go to the market at my phone to see if there’s an update. And yes there is. Click the update button, and there I have update my twitter apps. Actually I’ve read about the update at gizmodo. After watch the beta hands on, I’m very excited to get it.

It’s a big change in UI for the twitter 2.0. The mention, and direct messages tab are become one on top. It makes very easy to switch from tweet to mention or to direct messages. Not like the previous version that needs more steps to access it.

Notification for new tweet/mention/direct messages shown as little blue dot at the tab. It’s very little but enough to tell that there is an update. Updating style still the same (i.e. pull to refresh) which is the most fun style of updating timeline.

The arrow seen when updating reminds me to twitter for iPhone/iPad. So,I think twitter want to make the same experience to all their apps even in different platform.

After updating, it will stay in your last read tweet position and pressing the tweet tab will bring to the top of timeline. So we don’t have to search the last read tweet in the timeline like the previous one.

When doing ‘pull down to refresh’, it’s not only update the active tab but also update mention and your direct message. It’s better so we don’t have to doing ‘pull to refresh’ separately like the previous version. Yes, I don’t set the automatic update because it’s draining my battery.

The other improvement of this new version is the reply way. Now, we can do reply to all and also seeing replied tweet in conversation style. And also an autocompletion when writing username. That’s what I’m waiting for

In the previous version, when attach a picture to tweet, we don’t know the upload progress. The only thing we know, when it finish it shows the link to the picture. Now, it shows the progress of uploading the picture. It’s not a very big deal but it gives more information for geek like me

Well, that’s my review of the new official twitter apps for android. Happy tweeting

Twitter untuk android

Yuda — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:55:49 +0000

Setelah akuisisi twitter terhadap tweetie yang membuat para developer sedikit “mutung” ternyata pada konferensi chirp kemarin diungkapkan bahwa akan ada juga aplikasi resmi untuk platform android. Sepertinya twitter mulai menuruti saran dari early investornya untuk mulai membuat killer app.

Yang ditakutkan dari kondisi seperti ini adalah berkurangnya minat para developer untuk membuat aplikasi 3rd party untuk Twitter karena kemungkinan besar orang akan lebih memilih aplikasi resmi ketimbang aplikasi lain. Beberapa rekan saya yang sebelumnya menggunakan UberTwitter sudah mulai berpindah ke aplikasi resmi Twitter untuk BlackBerry.

Saya sendiri masih lebih sering menggunakan tuitwit di hp (maklum hape jadul :p ) dan chromed bird bila sedang menggunakan desktop atau laptop. Bagaimana dengan anda ??

Nexus one video series

Yuda — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:22:47 +0000

As everyone on the mailing list talk about nexus one that makes me desperately want it, I can only see the video series of nexus one by google.

Handphone lokal itu ternyata…

Yuda — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:52 +0000

Sudah tahu imo ? itu lho hape lokal yang berbasis android. Ga nyangka ternyata harganya…

Welcome Android

Yuda — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:09:23 +0000

Finally, it comes out. The first android smartphone known as T-Mobile G1. This video maybe can give you a clue for the wow of android. Well, let’s hope it will enter Indonesia soon or maybe sony-ericsson/nokia with android OS