Archive for October 21st, 2009
QuickTweet is Open Source
A while ago we developed a simple Twitter Client to scratch a personal itch I had with the existing clients.
The idea was to have a simple app that loaded really quick and enabled me to post a status update to twitter, using a full screen view that contained just a keyboard and a text box.
I also wanted it to rotate nicely in to landscape when I rotated the IPhone.
Seems simple ey? yet all the good twitter clients have really poor implementations.
This is what the App looks like:
This project will show you how to do the following things:
- Draw a custom control (TextField)
- Use a Fliped Transition (settings view)
- Save and fetch user defaults
- Custom Rotation logic to position elements manually
- Animation, the tweet text field animates away when you click Post
- Integrating with a 3rd party code base (MGTwitterEngine)
Go get the source from http://svn.floydprice.com/OSS/QuickTweet/trunk/
