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[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
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TweetComb is a Twitter client designed and created exclusively for the Android Honeycomb platform. TweetComb gives you a tablet-friendly view of your Twitter timeline, mentions, direct messages, and more.

Market Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.chriswstewart.twitter

Features of TweetComb:

-- Interact with Twitter in a tablet-friendly way with the only Twitter experience designed for Honeycomb.

-- Read your timeline, mentions, and direct messages with three distinct fragments. Each fragment interacts with Twitter for updates independent of the others.

-- When new tweets arrive, TweetComb will alert you with an audio clip.

-- TweetComb gives you an easy way to use and switch between multiple Twitter accounts.

-- From an individual tweet, you can reply, retweet, share, favorite, and send a direct message.

-- Quickly send status updates with full support for cut/copy/paste.

-- Support for sending and replying to direct messages inside the app.

-- TweetComb can be shared to from other apps such as the browser, Newsr, and others.

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[Xoom Themes and Apps] tumbes20000:
Just purchased the app. Looks great. Nice use of the extra real estate.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] arrtoodeetoo:
You know you'll have to change the name when Ice Cream comes out, right? ;)

I still wonder why someone hasn't taken the name "Chirp" for a Twitter app yet.

Anyways, it looks really nice. I'd be more willing to lay down some cash for it if it had a widget.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ayman07:
Why didnt you make this app backwards compatible with android 2.2? I mean there are many tablets out there, like the galaxy tab and the viewsonic gtab, that are unfortunately stuck on froyo but are still tablets. Couldn't you have made it compatible and set a screen size minimum to 7"? That way you can prevent people from trying to make this work on a 3.5" screen (tho someone would get around it if they REALLY want it) but you keep the millions of froyo tab owners happy (and more $$ in your wallet). For example, take the touchdown exchange app. It automatically detects the larger screen on the tab and adjusts its UI accordingly. For $2.99 I would expect you to put more time and effort into your app because that is expensive for a twitter especially since we know many of the popular twitter apps will offer it for free. I have no problem supporting a dev especially when they go the extra mile to make things work properly across all devices. Making this compatible on the galaxy tab would be evident of this and I would buy it in a heartbeat. Please consider this.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] le3ky:
Didnt google release a fragments library or something so this can be done pre-honeycomb?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cwizardtx:
I hope that you will find some insight to my opinion so I want to share it:

I think that the onslaught of new development for honeycomb tablets is great and I want to encourage it by purchasing these apps. With that said, I seem to be noticing a trend where these apps are coming out and they're basically alpha or beta stage without optimization or some features missing or "planned" with a pricetag and no ad-supported option for the users to download and check out the apps.

If you want to throw a new app out there, and ask us to test and feedback on it for a month... make it free during the development phase or only ad supported, and then when all of the features you are happy with are in and considered "ready to go" publish a paid version of the app and those of us who are really happy about it will gladly go buy it.

What I don't like, is having to pay 2 or 3 bucks for something and make a decision in 15 minutes or less as to whether or not it really works well. You cannot make an informed decision about a product in 15 minutes or less. This is not you the developers fault, and for that I am truly apathetic to your situation. If the 24 hour window still existed, or even if it was expanded to say 2 hours then I probably wouldn't make this post.

To combat the 15 minute window, I request that you consider an ad-supported version for people to spend more than a few minutes checking out.

For what its worth, I like the concept of a tablet optimized twitter client but judging only by screenshots I cannot tell if I would truly be satisfied or even need it as the official twitter app works just fine.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kkwus74:
Though I'm loving this on my Xoom, i also have a gtab and if this is possible, would really love to be able to use this on my gtab too.... maybe even phones running froyo? Cos this really look very sweet!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ayman07:
They sure did!

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
For me, I chose to focus on the tablet OS. While there are a few tablets out there running the phone OS, the trend over the next 6 months will be a whole new set of tablets running Honeycomb. I'd rather work on supporting that platform properly than diverting attention to support a setup that will be a tiny fraction of the market in about a year. I have no intention of bringing Newsr or TweetComb to earlier versions of Android for this reason.

There are Twitter apps, and Google Reader apps for that matter, which run on the phone OS just fine. I saw a market opportunity to make something for Honeycomb, using Honeycomb-specific features (that aren't included in the compat library), for both types of application.

If TweetComb isn't worth $2.99 to you, then I understand. I have put, and will continue to put, a lot of time and effort into it. I've done this with Newsr and will continue to with both. I'm not a company that can afford to put out free applications and hope I gain substantial market share to become attractive to acquisition. I'm a solo developer, with a full time job and a full time family, so for me the value proposition is making a couple bucks here and there to justify the serious amount of time and energy I put into developing Android apps. I have gotten a ton of positive feedback from my various applications, and it's been a really worthwhile endeavor for me.

I hope that answers your question on some level.

Edit: You know, and with all of that said, I am just a solo guy here in my home office making decisions and moving forward. Could I have made a mistake with TweetComb's price? Absolutely. Maybe I should have done any number of things. Frankly, I question every decision I make with my apps because I _do_ care. I put so much time and effort into them because I _do_ care. I want your input, I want everyone's input. It's not set in stone that I'll never have a free version, but right now something told me to put it up for $2.99 as I have with my other apps. Maybe that was a mistake, or maybe not. All I can say is I made a decision and moved forward with it. I'll second guess that decision, and every other, forever. :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] tumbes20000:
Imo the more dedicated tablet developers the better. Thanks again for the app
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ayman07:
I think you meant to say "the more dedicated honeycomb app developers". Cuz I have a tablet and its not honeycomb and we get no support. Oh well..
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cwizardtx:
I'll just share with you my purchasing MO:

Pocket Cloud: Tried the free version for a few days, decided that it was worth 15 bucks and bought it.

Quick Office Pro HD: Had to wait for an actual tablet version but based on prior experience with the included app I purchased it. Again 15 bucks.

Reditta the new Honeycomb Redit client: The guy has an ad-supported version and then I think it costs $1.60 something. The current plan is to purchase it after my next paycheck as I am using the free ad-supported version and I like it (after spending more than 15 minutes with it).

The same is true for SNESoid and a couple games I've purchased after playing around with them for a couple days.

It could very well be worth your time to slap together an ad supported version of each of your clients for people like me who pretty much habitually buy any good/decent app on the tablet.

Nothing wrong with making money!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
While I understand you, myself, and the typical crowd from XDA follows that approach, the _vast_ majority of consumers don't. I considered going with ad-supported, but honestly, from my experience, ad-supported really isn't even worth the inconvenience of the end user's experience. I'd rather just put it up for free without any advertising if I went that route.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cwizardtx:
How about a time bomb, one time in-app purchase that is required after the 1st hour of use? Just trying to think creatively lol.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kkwus74:
I don't think $2.99 is that big of a deal tbo. The most important thing imo is a responsive developer and one that listens to feedback. Whatever you want added or fixed will taken care of. Just my 2 cents worth.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ryan562:
Awesome app. Will u also dev for a Facebook tablet app? Or can u integrate Facebook in to this app as well?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kkwus74:
Anyway you would adding color links for username and links? Would make it alot easier to see..
[Xoom Themes and Apps] wezknowles:
It's $2.99 people! It's not like it's up there at $10 or $15! We need to support independent developers like these.

And Chris, stick to developing purely for Honeycomb. I own a Galaxy Tab and the standard Twitter and Google Reader apps are fine on those. I'd rather have one amazing app than two mediocre apps. Keep up the good work!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] MRCANNADY:
Great app good job..please continue supporting honeycomb as you have a customer in me! One question I have is how do you open the trending topics? Also if you can make a Facebook app like this I'd buy it the same day as the Facebook apps for android sucks!!!!!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kev0153:
2.99 works for me. Bought it this morning and already an update. Thanks
[Xoom Themes and Apps] -shift-:
fantastic app! loving the proper real-estate usage :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
Wanted to circle back and let you know about the updates I've been pushing. Earlier today I pushed 1.1 which had:

-- Can now retweet with edit.

-- Can now copy a tweet to the system clipboard.

-- Preference available to show real names in timelines.

-- Removed feedback link from preferences (so I can submit to Amazon).

-- "Mark as Spam" option for a tweet now available.

-- BUG: Keyboard now capitalizes sentences appropriately.

-- BUG: RT status should show picture of original user.

-- BUG: Sound enable/disable is now working properly.

Then, a few minutes ago, I pushed 1.2 which includes:

-- Profile tab provides a view of a user’s basic info, their recent tweets, and their publicly available favored tweets.

-- Profile search.

-- Follow/unfollow user from profile page.

Enjoy. :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
You know, I've gotten at least two dozen emails/tweets today asking if I was going to work on a Facebook app. Frankly, I'm swamped with Newsr and TweetComb, but I sure would love a crack at a Facebook app. Who knows... :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] gerbick:
This is effectively MetroTwit (Windows only) for Honeycomb... and that's worth $2.99 from me easily.

The rows, the setup... friggin' love it. All I'm missing would be a widget much like the one I had used (already uninstalled) with the official Twitter app.

Other than that... keep up the great work. Bit.ly URL shortening (with API key support) and a few others are definitely high up on my list.

Thanks a ton for the good work.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Lambduh:
So happy I bought this app. Thanks for targeting honeycomb and responding in here =)

2.99 is very fair... most people spend that much on more trivial things every day. Keep up the good work!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
Things it could use:

Features

*Integration of Read-Later and Instapaper for links.

*Show whole conversations

*Auto Scroll To the top latest tweet (atm it scrols to the last read, maybe ad as option)

UI Tweaks

*swype from left to right on a tweet to show options for retweet, fav and conversation

*swype from right to left on a tweet to show options for Copy to clipboard or open link on browser etc.

This is by far the best twitter application ive ever seen on honeycomb so far, and c'mon guys, 2.99$ isnt a biggie... its what i spend on coffee for two days...so....stop whinin guys! look what simple twitter apps can cost on other mobile OS...

Keep on rollin Chris!! Youve done Great!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] futuregerald:
Thanks for the app, I've been waiting for a good twitter client since I bought my xoom on day 1 and I really like yours. I think 2.99 is a bargain knowing how much work goes in to it and how much work you continue to do. I also use NewsR and LOVE it. honestly I'd pay more for both apps and wouldn't complain one bit about the price,I'm certainly not rich either but I understand the work that goes in to it.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] el_bori1:
I need background updates.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] jwilker:
Worth the price! Bought it and newsr

I'm personally glad you focused on the Xoom and honeycomb. There's plenty of apps out there for the phone OS's, and on the xoom, most look terrible.

Good job targeting an OS and sticking to it! I don't mind paying so long as you don't abandon :) Great job, looking forward to more updates and features!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] horatiopositronic:
I'd love to see less clutter. Maybe tabs at the top for switching between tweets, mentions and direct messages and the content of each tabs in a list on the left. Then when you tap individual tweets it expands to the right with more info and options. Links to the author's profile, any images they might have linked to, and options for replying, retweeting etc.

I've got a pretty clear idea in my head. Maybe I'll photoshop together a mockup this week.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
Thanks for the support and feedback everyone, I compile it all while thinking through new features and implementations. Keep it coming!

I just pushed version 1.3 which includes:

- Search tab.

-- Provides 3 fragments where you can set independent search queries.

-- Each fragment updates independently from the others.

-- Each fragment persists its search query between sessions of TweetComb.

-- Various types of searches are supported, such as hashtags (#TweetComb), keywords (TweetComb), and screen names (@chrisstewart).

-- Each fragment provides a way to erase the currently set search term, and allows you to enter a new one that is then kept.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] shaunmclane:
Bought the app on day 1 in the market. Within minutes, cancelled for refund. Then remembered Chris is the NewsR guy and felt like a douche, so I bought it again just to show support, knowing the updates would come quickly. These apps DO NOT disappoint!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kev0153:
Could you make it so that it remembers the last place you stopped reading instead of always starting at the top when opening? This would be similar to the official twitter app for phones. And can you make the time stamp read like "1 hour ago" etc..

Thanks
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kkwus74:
+1 on this......
[Xoom Themes and Apps] wezknowles:
Remembering timeline position is a killer feature for me. Not sure how hard this is to implement but it'd mean I wouldn't have to be using the official Twitter app alongside TweetComb.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
Besides that, i could also need:

a visualisation of favorited tweets,

My own DM's maybe grouped into conversations like Osfoora does on iOS
[Xoom Themes and Apps] rajones19:
Love the app so far. Biggest killer for me is favorites, which I use extensively. I see there is the ability to favorite a tweet, but is there a way to view favorites? Also agree 100% re: the ability to hold position in the timeline, plus background updates. Great work so far! Will have to take a look at NewsR.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Highland3r:
Tend to use twitter to view rather than tweet. Is there any way you can add some ccustomisation to the dashboard screen? I.e similar types of feature to the search screen so you can use the other 2 columns for custom searches?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
TweetComb 1.4 is now available! It includes:

Release 1.4 - 4/29/11

-- Profile links are clickable.

-- Hash tag links are clickable.

-- Hyperlinks are clickable and display in a local preview. You can also choose to view in a browser on the tablet.

-- In-line picture previews are available for yfrog, plixi, and twitpic.

-- A button was added to each tweet for easier access to the options (reply, retweet, etc).

-- A button was added to each list fragment to take you to the top of the list immediately.

-- Trending topics are now clickable.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
There is, it's on the profile tab. When the app first loads it loads up your profile and part of that tab is a favorites list.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
very good update. to get ridnof tweetdeck jow forever i only need 3 features more:

multi account support

view conversation

my own dm's should be seeable

edit :

yeah it does multi account :-)

but im lost without the conversation view
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ThePacha:
Motorola Xoom wifi: Cant buy any of your apps from the market.android.com or directly in the Xoom

market.android.com: This item cannot be installed on your device.

Xoom Error: Sorry, details page for the requested item could not be found.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
use market enabler, fake german provider

o2 and it works :-)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] trillbo:
Looks good, but I really wish it had a widget.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
I dont care about widgets, only thing i need now is:

Upload multimedias

See my own dm's

Conversations!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] eduke:
excellent, good job ;)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ScottC:
Gladly paid for this app, even when it launched with only a few features. At the moment, the dev behind this app is the best one in honeycomb development. Also bought newsr. Insane that he is the only one with an optimized RSS and Twitter app.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] drahyrt:
Loving the freq updates too, new features, keep it up, and good luck with your new baby:D
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
i really could use conversation view, media upload for pictures an integration of instapaper or readitlater
[Xoom Themes and Apps] andr0id23:
Well said. The Android userbase, imo, has gotten to a point where they expect so much, and expect it for free. I see so many people criticizing devs for creating apps, roms, themes, etc that aren't up to the user's exact standards. It's kind of shocking to see. Now I think it's great that the consumer community holds the development community to high standards and pushes them to make great products, but there is a line between motivation and demanding. Its great to see users make suggestions & developers work with their user base, but the bottom line is if it's not necessary on your device and you don't like it, don't use it or make your own. For those of us without the time and/or ability to make our own apps/roms/themes/kernels, we are at the mercy of those that can. We should be greatful there are so many great options for virtually every Android user out there. Lets let these devs know we appreciate what they do and not jump all over their back for not making their product thru our eyes. If you don't wanna pay 3 bucks for a honeycomb tablet based twitter app, so be it. One of the great things about Android is the availability of thousands of apps, several Twitter ones included!

To the OP: from what I've seen here, the app looks cool. I've always been interested in the 3 row setup you have, and it is perfect for many running on tablets. Thanks for the hard work, and I hope to see you continue with it! Gonna go check out the app now.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Aeskulapio:
Just seeing this post now, buying your app as I need an optimized twitter app and to help encourage continued development.

Cheers brother and thanks
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Smokexz:
I know everyone says it is awesome, but I don't use twitter very often, so I don't want to pay for an app that I might find bad, might I recommend a lite version with ads and some restrictions ( example, no push notifications, no widgets etc?) I could then maybe try it and render my own verdict, don't like to randlmly buy apps.

Sent from my Xoom
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Chris Stewart:
TweetComb 1.5 is now available! It includes:

Release 1.5 - 5/1/11

The Dashboard was updated so it can be configured to show fragments the user wants to display.

A menu option, "Customize Dashboard", was added.

Once the menu item is selected, a dialog is shown with the fragments available to you. These are Timeline, Mentions, Direct Messages, and any of the search fragments that have a search keyword set up already.

Once you select the fragments you want to display in the Dashboard tab, and press close, the tab will refresh and your newly selected fragments will be shown.

If there are more than three fragments selected, causing the screen to fill, swipe the screen from right to left and the additional fragments will be shown.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] validoption:
When this has multiple accounts, I will drop tweetdeck and gladly pay for this :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kkwus74:
This oready has multiple accounts.;-)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] andr0id23:
Got a chance to purchase and try it out briefly, and so far I'm liking it. Love the main feature, the different columns to see different elements. Two things I would love to see: First, I would like to change backgrounds. I'm more of a light background guy. Honestly I didn't even check in my brief time with the app as I wanted to check out the features, but if you can't change the background, I'd like to see that implemented. Secondly, and much more importantly, I didn't see a way to tweet a picture. Maybe I missed something? That would be a pretty big deal for me as I like to add pics to my tweets. I was just trying to tweet a pic of the app, but didn't see a way. Anyway, I'm a pretty avid twitter user so I will get to check it out more in depth soon, but so far, besides the picture thing, I'm liking. I could see myself using it exclusively after I get a feel for it, but again, only if I can upload pics from my gallery(and ideally an option to take them then tweet them via the app, rather then leaving to snap a pic and coming back to send). If not, I couldn't possibly use this app exclusively.

*Edit* Oh yea, widgets are always good ;-)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] RinTinTigger:
Yea, tweeting media is one KEY Feature, that is missing, as well as the view of a whole conversatioN!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kkwus74:
+1 on this.... these 2 features are very important to me too. Hope it could be implemented soon.

Sent from my HTC Evo
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Putzy:
As stupid as it sounds... could the user interface be adjusted on the dashboard, so if you only have 2 fragments showing, each one uses 50% of the width - not 33%?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] kev0153:
loving this thing so far. Keep the updates coming. :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dean_fx:
url shortening

I would love to see goo.gl url shortening support. That would definitely help. As well as image/video uploading support (twitpic/twitvid...etc).

The application is definitely awesome, I am glad I supported it and paid for it ;-)

Hopefully these features get implemented quickly, as i'm sure they are daily features for many people other than me.

EDIT: oh, and of course...a decent sized widget (as people previously requested) :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Ifiuse:
When FaceComb will be out? :O
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Eclair~:
Lol... FaceComb.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dean_fx:
LOL!

Who cares ;x Let TweetComb finish first ;P
[Xoom Themes and Apps] el_bori1:
I'm still waiting for background updates to use the app full time.