Customer Review for Twitter for Android!
Good afternoon, Khabrovsk. I decided at my leisure to deal with clients for Twitter for Android, since there is plenty to choose from, the Market is teeming with them. There are both excellent, worthwhile things, and applications are not very, apparently, the Market moderation policy, or rather its almost complete absence, apparently affects.
In this article I will consider: Seesmic, Twidroid, Swift, Twicca .
First, I will describe their interface with screenshots, then at the end I will give a comparative table where the capabilities of each application will be indicated.
ATTENTION! VERY MUCH PICTURES !!!
The client is wonderful, it is not in vain that I returned to him twice, and now I continue to use it. Recently put into operation support for multiple accounts and the ability to remember the position of the last read tweet, after downloading new content.
Login screen. Here you can select a default account.
Accounts Clicking on an account will open its timeline. A long press on the account will open a menu where you can delete your account, go to the timeline, see the profile or write a tweet (compose). By clicking on the Menu button, you can add an account or go to the settings.
Timeline. Clicking on any post will open it in full screen, which will indicate, in addition to the tweet itself, the full name of the follower, the date the record was sent, and the client from which the sending was made.
As you can see, users, hashtags and links are highlighted. Links are opened, hashtags and users are read. You can go to the sender profile by clicking on it. There are also buttons for answering a record, retweets, direct messages, adding to favorites.
A long press on a tweet in the timeline will open a menu where you can do everything you can with a normal press + the ability to share this tweet (it can be sent by e-mail, mms, to other Twitter clients or to Facebook).
Replayz . Here you can see all the posts in which you were mentioned. The remaining functions are identical with the timeline.
Direct messages. Clicking on a tweet opens the history of correspondence with a follower. A long press opens a menu where you can delete correspondence.
Profile.Here you can see all the information about the person, the number of tweets and followers written, the presence of selected messages. You can also follow or block a person, as well as see his location on the map (if he indicated the coordinates in the profile).
Lists . In order to view your reading lists, you can use your profile or simply press the Menu button and select Lists, and other people's lists are viewed through their profile.
Sending me a tweet. At the bottom of the button: the first adds a photo or video, by the way, you can also shoot directly from the program, the second - location, or address, or a link to maps, the third - shortens the links. The application works great with the clipboard. If you have several accounts, you can choose which one / which to write from by clicking on @% username% at the top of the screen.
Search. Here you can search for everything, users or view trends. There is also a function to save the search or delete it, and the ability to load saved searches from Twitter.
Settings
Probably everyone who has an Android phone and Twitter used it at least once, at least in many firmware from forum.xda-developers.org this application is present.
Login screen. The application is localized. It is worth noting that the software holds SSL, and also works with other services, namely identi.ca and wozai, it is also possible to manually enter a link to the server’s API interface, that is, I think, almost any Twitter-like service . Yes, he also holds several accounts.
Timeline. Clicking on a tweet in the timeline will lead to the appearance of such a menu where all possible actions will be listed: reply, retweet, erase, if this is your tweet, copy and see the follower's profile.
Mentions.
Private messages.The implementation is similar to Seesmic.
Profile You can edit your profile and enable auto-update of the location.
Window of a new tweet. Standard feature set.
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Search. twitter sphere the most popular twitter links.
Settings Here you can do without words.
The annexer was not standing on my phone for long, and something was somehow wrong. Although many, I know, use it.
Login screen. As you can see here there is a search on Twitter, and a list of trends.
Timeline. In order to magically appear the bookmark menu, you need to click on the Menu button, then on Change View or touch the top of the application interface. Jump to now - tweets update feature in the feed.
Then everything is almost like Seesmic - if you click on a tweet, it will open in full screen. Long presses the interface does not understand. I really liked the Show Conversatoin function - it shows the connection between the answers. Links open in the built-in browser. If you poke in the avatar or user name, then his profile will open.
If you click on the triangle in the circle, a menu opens where you can save the tweet (then you can send it by mail), copy its text or a link to it.
Menshon . Tweets with your name.
Messagis. Only answers to your direct messages in the form of a timeline, which is very upsetting.
Profile . Here there is a search for users and you can see your profile. Null under the photo is the lack of a site. You can send yourself a message or reply to yourself, but you can’t follow yourself. You can also see your page on twitter.com
Window of a new tweet.You can open it by clicking on the rectangle, with an incomprehensible circle in the center, in the upper right corner, or through the menu. As you can see it is very small, the triangle in the circle gives you access to the ability to “stick” photos / videos. You can take more photos from the program itself.
Search. You can search for hashtags and words, as well as save the search and search near your location.
Settings
In my opinion the thing is very successful, it is a pity that so far only beta. At least I think something worthwhile will come out of it. It is worth noting that Twicca is only available under Android OS 1.6+.
Login screen. Well what can I say? Minimalism.
Timeline . If you have many followers, I think this program will be useful to you. Perhaps it’s clear from the screenshot, it can display in the timeline posts of people you marked in any color. With a long press, you can select individual tweets, and then reply immediately to everyone, add to favorites and highlight their authors with color in the ribbon.
When you click on a tweet, a large menu appears. Here you can do everything: reply, retweet, quote, write a direct message, see the history of correspondence (similar to Show conversetion in Swift), see the user profile, follow the links, add to favorites, adjust reading lists, set the user's display color or share a tweet (this functions can be assigned a default action). The mechanism for processing links, hashtags and usernames is the same as in Twidroid.
Manshons. It's all like everyone else.
Direct Messagis. Only 2 buttons: go to outgoing and update.
Profile. Here all standard functions are available, you can read tweets, and add a person to the lists.
Window of a new tweet.# - hashtags, then link compression, then insert photo / video and determine location using GPS only.
Search . It is possible to save searches, and interestingly implemented trends. You can see the trends that are popular now, today and this week. But he can’t search for people.
Lists. You can create reading lists, write descriptions, and assign privacy.
Settings
ps This article was written in conjunction with @nixan , unfortunately it does not have an account on Habrahabr.
In this article I will consider: Seesmic, Twidroid, Swift, Twicca .
First, I will describe their interface with screenshots, then at the end I will give a comparative table where the capabilities of each application will be indicated.
ATTENTION! VERY MUCH PICTURES !!!
Seedmic
The client is wonderful, it is not in vain that I returned to him twice, and now I continue to use it. Recently put into operation support for multiple accounts and the ability to remember the position of the last read tweet, after downloading new content.
Login screen. Here you can select a default account.
Accounts Clicking on an account will open its timeline. A long press on the account will open a menu where you can delete your account, go to the timeline, see the profile or write a tweet (compose). By clicking on the Menu button, you can add an account or go to the settings.
Timeline. Clicking on any post will open it in full screen, which will indicate, in addition to the tweet itself, the full name of the follower, the date the record was sent, and the client from which the sending was made.
As you can see, users, hashtags and links are highlighted. Links are opened, hashtags and users are read. You can go to the sender profile by clicking on it. There are also buttons for answering a record, retweets, direct messages, adding to favorites.
A long press on a tweet in the timeline will open a menu where you can do everything you can with a normal press + the ability to share this tweet (it can be sent by e-mail, mms, to other Twitter clients or to Facebook).
Replayz . Here you can see all the posts in which you were mentioned. The remaining functions are identical with the timeline.
Direct messages. Clicking on a tweet opens the history of correspondence with a follower. A long press opens a menu where you can delete correspondence.
Profile.Here you can see all the information about the person, the number of tweets and followers written, the presence of selected messages. You can also follow or block a person, as well as see his location on the map (if he indicated the coordinates in the profile).
Lists . In order to view your reading lists, you can use your profile or simply press the Menu button and select Lists, and other people's lists are viewed through their profile.
Sending me a tweet. At the bottom of the button: the first adds a photo or video, by the way, you can also shoot directly from the program, the second - location, or address, or a link to maps, the third - shortens the links. The application works great with the clipboard. If you have several accounts, you can choose which one / which to write from by clicking on @% username% at the top of the screen.
Search. Here you can search for everything, users or view trends. There is also a function to save the search or delete it, and the ability to load saved searches from Twitter.
Settings
- Default Account - here is the choice of the main account.
- Number of Tweets - the number of displayed tweets per timeline (from 20 to 150).
- Display full name - display the full name, not the username.
- Remember Position - the ability to remember the position of the last read tweet, after downloading new content.
- Text size - sets the text size from small to VERY large.
- Notification - notification settings (vibro, ringtone, flashing green light), update interval and what to update.
- Photo service - photo resolution service. yFrog, Twitpic or MobyPicture.
- Video service - similarly for video only. yFrog, Twitvid, YouTube. If you have an account on YouTube, you can specify it in the settings.
- URL Shortening - link compression. J.mp, Tinyurl or Bit.ly (if you specify the API or user Bit.ly in the following menu, then you can see statistics on your links on their website)
Twidroid
Probably everyone who has an Android phone and Twitter used it at least once, at least in many firmware from forum.xda-developers.org this application is present.
Login screen. The application is localized. It is worth noting that the software holds SSL, and also works with other services, namely identi.ca and wozai, it is also possible to manually enter a link to the server’s API interface, that is, I think, almost any Twitter-like service . Yes, he also holds several accounts.
Timeline. Clicking on a tweet in the timeline will lead to the appearance of such a menu where all possible actions will be listed: reply, retweet, erase, if this is your tweet, copy and see the follower's profile.
Mentions.
Private messages.The implementation is similar to Seesmic.
Profile You can edit your profile and enable auto-update of the location.
Window of a new tweet. Standard feature set.
img525.imageshack.us/img525/5283/poisk.png
Search. twitter sphere the most popular twitter links.
Settings Here you can do without words.
Swift
The annexer was not standing on my phone for long, and something was somehow wrong. Although many, I know, use it.
Login screen. As you can see here there is a search on Twitter, and a list of trends.
Timeline. In order to magically appear the bookmark menu, you need to click on the Menu button, then on Change View or touch the top of the application interface. Jump to now - tweets update feature in the feed.
Then everything is almost like Seesmic - if you click on a tweet, it will open in full screen. Long presses the interface does not understand. I really liked the Show Conversatoin function - it shows the connection between the answers. Links open in the built-in browser. If you poke in the avatar or user name, then his profile will open.
If you click on the triangle in the circle, a menu opens where you can save the tweet (then you can send it by mail), copy its text or a link to it.
Menshon . Tweets with your name.
Messagis. Only answers to your direct messages in the form of a timeline, which is very upsetting.
Profile . Here there is a search for users and you can see your profile. Null under the photo is the lack of a site. You can send yourself a message or reply to yourself, but you can’t follow yourself. You can also see your page on twitter.com
Window of a new tweet.You can open it by clicking on the rectangle, with an incomprehensible circle in the center, in the upper right corner, or through the menu. As you can see it is very small, the triangle in the circle gives you access to the ability to “stick” photos / videos. You can take more photos from the program itself.
Search. You can search for hashtags and words, as well as save the search and search near your location.
Settings
- Account - username or account.
- Password -: D
- Secure all connectoins - if checked, the FSB will not recognize your password.
- Send Usage Data - anonymously sends information about your manipulations with Swift.
- Notification intarval - update frequency (from "never" to once every 6 hours).
- Timeline, Metion, Messages notifucation - notifications in the corresponding tabs.
- Select Rington - select a ringtone.
- Vibrate - vibration.
- Photo Upload - where to upload photos (yFrog, Twitpic, TwitGoo or Img.Ly).
- Video Upload - where to put the video (Twitvid or yFrog)
- Open links inside Swift - allows you to open links in the program.
- Advanced settings - here you can configure another API.
Twicca
In my opinion the thing is very successful, it is a pity that so far only beta. At least I think something worthwhile will come out of it. It is worth noting that Twicca is only available under Android OS 1.6+.
Login screen. Well what can I say? Minimalism.
Timeline . If you have many followers, I think this program will be useful to you. Perhaps it’s clear from the screenshot, it can display in the timeline posts of people you marked in any color. With a long press, you can select individual tweets, and then reply immediately to everyone, add to favorites and highlight their authors with color in the ribbon.
When you click on a tweet, a large menu appears. Here you can do everything: reply, retweet, quote, write a direct message, see the history of correspondence (similar to Show conversetion in Swift), see the user profile, follow the links, add to favorites, adjust reading lists, set the user's display color or share a tweet (this functions can be assigned a default action). The mechanism for processing links, hashtags and usernames is the same as in Twidroid.
Manshons. It's all like everyone else.
Direct Messagis. Only 2 buttons: go to outgoing and update.
Profile. Here all standard functions are available, you can read tweets, and add a person to the lists.
Window of a new tweet.# - hashtags, then link compression, then insert photo / video and determine location using GPS only.
Search . It is possible to save searches, and interestingly implemented trends. You can see the trends that are popular now, today and this week. But he can’t search for people.
Lists. You can create reading lists, write descriptions, and assign privacy.
Settings
- Account settings - username and password
- Timeline settings - setting the maximum number of downloaded tweets, go to the very top when new tweets are loaded, font size, whether to show retweets, display the full name of users, etc.
- Status update settings - setting the appearance of retweets and many more settings.
- Search settings - Search settings related to your location.
- Noticication settings — стандартные настройки уведомления.
- Сolor label settings — здесь можно переименовать цвета выделения фолловеров.
- Front settings — настройка шрифтов
- Profile settings — редактор профиля: биография, полное имя, адрес дом страницы, местонахождения.
- Plug-in setting — настройка плагинов
Сводная таблица
| Клиент | Оформление | Изображения | Видео | Ссылки | Сервисы кроме twitter | Итог |
| Seesmic | Иконка сделана по гайдлайнам Android 1.6, что имхо весьма и весьма чудесно, но в целом ребятам бы хорошего художника в команду. | yFrog, Twitpic и MobyPicture | yFrog, Twitvid и YouTube | Bit.ly и J.mp | - | На данный момент — мой выбор. |
| Twidroid | Мазолят глаза голубые уведомления в NotificationBar'е, да и в целом мрачновато как-то все. | Phodroid, Twitpic, Twitgo и yFrog. | только в платной версии | Short.to, TinyURL и is.gd Так же умеет Bit.ly, но в платной версии. | Identi.ca, Wozai либо ссылка на интерфейс API. | Качественное приложение. Жалко что функция отправки видео доступна только в платной версии. |
| Swift | Очень похоже по мрачности на twidroid, но зато иконка отлично вписывается в гайдлайны Эклера. | Img.ly, TwitGoo, TwitPic, yFrog | Twitvid и yFrog Снимать прямо из клиента не умеет. | Bit.ly | Можно указать ссылку на интерфейс API | Не жалею, что удалил. |
| Twicca | Если закрыть глаза на похожесть с SlideScreen'ом, и то, что последнее появилось раньше, то очень даже хорошо. Юзабилити тоже на высоком уровне. | yFrog | yFrog | Bit.ly | - | Функционал расширяется за счет плагинов, которые уже есть в маркете. Жалко, что у беты подглючивают уведомления, но это возможно только у меня. Мои итог — жду релиза. |
ps This article was written in conjunction with @nixan , unfortunately it does not have an account on Habrahabr.