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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Developing applications for Android, part 4

The Android Twitter clent is “prototype-ready” now. Still not showing user pictures, nor does any kind of formatting of the timeline text (colors would be nice, for instance), but it sure works, and it’s possible to follow links in the messages (actually a feature of the TextView widget).

It’s also been tested on the G1, as can be seen in the photos. After the public demo on Friday the obvious question is: What to do next?

Before a commercial launch is reasonable (what with TwitDroid showing pictures, has user searching etc) at least timelines need to be formatted. Probably the best way to achieve that would be to open a browser view in the lower part of the display, and generate HTML from within the application. I haven’t figured out how to do that though.

In total it’s taken 3 work days of development, and 1 day of reading books and web tutorials, so my other MIDlets would probably also be rather quick to port.

Click on the photos for more detail.