TwitterDroid Public Alpha Released

Monday, 26 November 2007

The first public alpha of TwitterDroid is out. TwitterDroid is a clone of Twitterific designed for Android.

As Android is not yet available on hardware, TwitterDroid only runs in the emulator provided with its SDK; so it might be a bit tricky to install the app for now.

Installation

After you’ve downloaded and unpacked TwitterDroid, you’ll have to install the package using the following command line

$ adb install twitterdroid-0.1.2.apk

You’ll find adb in the tools/ folder of the Android SDK; refer to the documentation to get more information about how to install applications.

Next time you’ll run the emulator, TwitterDroid will be available in the application folder.

Features

TwitterDroid is an early alpha release so it doesn’t do much but gets the job done.

Log into any Twitter account and save preferences
Display expanded tweets of your friends timeline
Post a tweet to your timeline
Display a waiting spinner when sending and fetching tweets
Refresh the tweet list
Catch connection errors and display an alert
Use the black theme of Android

Download TwitterDroid 0.1.2. Enjoy.

UPDATE (Aug. 04, 2008): TwitterDroid is now in open source.

UPDATE (Nov. 14, 2008): TwitterDroid is now officially hosted at GitHub.

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C:\adb install twitterdroid/twitterdroid-0.1.2.apk
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
490 KB/s (73366 bytes in 0.146s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/twitterdroid-0.1.2.apk
Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED]

Fred Brunel

Sorry about that, it's probably because this version is built to work for an old version of Android.

I'm working on a new release and I'll post something about it.

Thanks.

Miah

Has there been a beta release for this project yet? I am looking for a good client and I've heard that this was supposed to be the best!!

Fred Brunel

I don't know if it's the best, it's an early version. You can download a pre-compiled version on GitHub[1]. I haven't released a lot of version and you would need to compile it yourself to get the latest.

[1] http://wiki.github.com/fbrunel/twitterdroid/rel...

Mattman

Man...will this ever be available on the Android Market? For all those who appreciate your work, but don't know how to install these programs on the G1.

Mattman

Fred Brunel

I don't think this app is ready for prime time, it's too basic in it's current form. However, I could try to put it on the Android Market for free.