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[Review] TweetDeck Beta Launches – Best Android Twitter App?

As you might have heard, TweetDeck has released its Twitter app for Android after what seems to be ages of development, at least for me, as I’ve been dying for this. Twidroyd has long been, at least in functionality, best Twitter app for Android, but TweetDeck hopes to change that by bringing the best Twitter app for PC to Android. Interestingly, its not a direct port of their iPhone app, rather, its been built from the ground to up to showcase the changes that TweetDeck hopes to roll out across its other platforms. I’ve gotta say, its looking great, but not quite there yet. Check out the video for a demo of the great functionality as well as the missing functionality. All in all, though, great job TweetDeck.
TweetDeck Beta for Android Video Demo With Download Link

Tweetdeck is nice, the font size is annoying though
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Tried it did not like it my self not enough options IMHO
from the apple store loling

Naw it's definitely not the best quite yet. It's lacking A LOT feature wise but it's on the right track. It's been the main one I've used since it came out yesterday. Just might replace my Twitter for Android in the end.

Sporkman said:
Tried it did not like it my self not enough options IMHO
from the apple store loling
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Dropped it like a accident at a nuclear power plant!
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FTW! yes now i dont ahve to run all the twitter apps (too cheap for twitdroid pro lol)

Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.

Rhoq said:
Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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Yup, that's a def.. +1
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TweedDeck desktop is awesome. Can't beat it imo. TweedDeck for Android... another story. As someone said above, they have a long ways to go. ALTHO one think I do like, is the smoothness of the app. Thats all tho... I'm sure over time it will get better, but they have lots of catching up to do.

NovaFox238 said:
TweedDeck desktop is awesome. Can't beat it imo. TweedDeck for Android... another story. As someone said above, they have a long ways to go. ALTHO one think I do like, is the smoothness of the app. Thats all tho... I'm sure over time it will get better, but they have lots of catching up to do.
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Well said. Thats exactly how I feel. The app is really smooth and I like that it brings you back where you left off in every column, but they've got a lot of work to do. But with their apps for other platforms, I know they can do it.

What's wrong with TweetCaster?

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Didn't like it at all. Sticking with TweetCaster for now.
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same here!!

Not bad....
I dig it. It's not fully featured, but it is really smooth. I'll keep it to test it out for now, but I'm not getting rid of my primary twitter/fb apps. I'll keep those and reserve judgment on this app until the official release is out.

ballr4lyf said:
I dig it. It's not fully featured, but it is really smooth. I'll keep it to test it out for now, but I'm not getting rid of my primary twitter/fb apps. I'll keep those and reserve judgment on this app until the official release is out.
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Same here.

Don't complain
To all of you that complains about Tweetdeck for Android. It's still beta and not the finished application. I can assure you there is frantic activity over at Tweetdeck support, and I don't doubt that this will be a killer app

I think it kinda sucks at least right now, all the other Twitter apps I've tried are better and actually have features. And it won't stop sending Twitter notifications which I don't want as it's constant and annoying. Oh and it's ugly..haha. I'm sure it will get better though. I like Twicca myself.

effluent said:
I think it kinda sucks at least right now, all the other Twitter apps I've tried are better and actually have features. And it won't stop sending Twitter notifications which I don't want as it's constant and annoying. Oh and it's ugly..haha. I'm sure it will get better though. I like Twicca myself.
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In the app, hit Menu>>Manage Columns and turn off the notifications you dont want

TweetCaster lets you to disable all background notifications.

tweetcaster is really everyone main twitter app? over twidroyd pro and toutier?
i liking tweetdeck so far.. it is lacking some options.. but i like seeing my fb/tweets in one column. twidroyd is my fallback.

autoprime said:
tweetcaster is really everyone main twitter app? over twidroyd pro and toutier?
i liking tweetdeck so far.. it is lacking some options.. but i like seeing my fb/tweets in one column. twidroyd is my fallback.
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Thanks to whoever told me how to turn off notifications. I wasn't getting them then randomly this morning they started coming in. I just use Pure Messenger to read FB/tweets in one column and open Twicca/Facebook from Pure Messenger to post something. I like it because it's a widget. Is Tweetdeck going to put out a widget? I didn't notice one looking through my widgets.

Cut The Rope on Android! Finally!

First of all, http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/01/cut-the-rope-for-android-nearing-release-preview-goes-live/
Second, I think I found the apk... the very one that's shown in the video. I have it on my phone, and it looks quite official. It is a lite version, though, probably the free version that will be released once the game goes up on the market. I don't know what it's compatible with, though. I have it running on my Evo, CM7 RC2.
EDIT: This is an UNofficial Chinese port of the game.
Enjoy!
EDIT: Played this for a while now... beat all except for one level. It seems to be pretty buggy. Taps are almost always registered as swipes, and multi-touch just doesn't work. Still, it should help stave off anyone's craving for some Cut The Rope
EDIT AGAIN: since I went and bumped this, I might as well update. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12656267&postcount=55 has an almost fully functional apk of this. Works very well, just turn off music.

Yey! Good news! Thanks.

that looks fun ha ha

that's not the real one. it's an unofficial port from an unofficial chinese market.
http://translate.google.com/transla...ainman.cuttherope&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

XlAfbk said:
that's not the real one. it's an unofficial port from an unofficial chinese market.
http://translate.google.com/transla...ainman.cuttherope&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
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Ah, I see. That would explain the Chinese stuff in the Community section, haha. Thanks for the clarification!

Cool ! Thx for sharing mate. Real fun.
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Based on the whole 3rd party markets and running naughty code thing I would not be installing this.

This has packages.. inside the .apk.. not touching it.

Wouldn't touch it. Giant alarm bells 1) packages inside the. Apk, and secondly, a port from chinese market. Sounds like anyone who loads that up is asking for trouble...
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From what I have been reading about the various viruses from Chinese applications I'm going to take a pass; you should remove this to be safe.
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Yeah, those viruses are bad news

mssmison said:
Based on the whole 3rd party markets and running naughty code thing I would not be installing this.
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What naughty code is that exactly?
Bla1ze said:
This has packages.. inside the .apk.. not touching it.
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Packages, do you even know what you are talking about? Because if you mean the .lib files; then yes, how else do you suppose you would be able to run a direct iPhone port on your Android phone?...
chbennett said:
Wouldn't touch it. Giant alarm bells 1) packages inside the. Apk, and secondly, a port from chinese market. Sounds like anyone who loads that up is asking for trouble...
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You're just repeating what bla1ze said without even knowing what you're talking about, aren't you?
FLAC Vest said:
From what I have been reading about the various viruses from Chinese applications I'm going to take a pass; you should remove this to be safe.
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General rule of thumb, an American will hack you just as well as a Chinese. And yet you all cry murder over a game ported over by Chinese developers? WOW...
I suggest you all look at the permissions this app requests and then head on over to http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html and read up on what each does.
android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE
android.permission.INTERNET
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
All pretty standard for a game that uses the Chinese equivalent of OpenFeint.
This apk has absolutely ZERO write access to any part of your phone. NONE.
You can now proceed to put your aluminum foil hats back on, peace.

I have it on my phone, and it looks quite official. It is a lite version, though, probably the free version that will be released once the game goes up on the market.
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Ya This Is A Oficial . At The Time It Is Just Lite Version . The Non Official Is The Snake Not The Frog . Do You Have Proble When Playing It Just Exit ?

ic3tea said:
Ya This Is A Oficial . At The Time It Is Just Lite Version . The Non Official Is The Snake Not The Frog . Do You Have Proble When Playing It Just Exit ?
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This is most definitely not official. This is an unofficial port done by some Chinese developers. It's not even a very good port at that, since it's a direct port of the iPhone version. They didn't rewrite any of the code for the actual game.

Yeah, it's not official. But it's definitely NOT a virus. Had it on my phone for a while, nothing ever happened, and Lookout never detected anything.

have some kind a good news, i discovered if you turn off the music in the options (sound effect can still stand on if you want) the game works good without the glitchy controlls like taps that register as swipes

played it every level can be played with ful 3 stars and smooth on my phone
can they port other apps like taptap?

Vaya boricua.

at my X10a 2.1 not work

I liked the idea, but the game itself was good, but no multitouch and quiet short. But good job!

SPB mobile shell 5.0 beta

I have it working on my Droid x its awesome. But some apps that came with it don't work. Other than that the 3d ui looks great. Runs great. Is anyone else using this app? If so what do you think of it?

This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.

musashiken said:
This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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I didn't know that but I can't post links anyways. I can't wait for it to be out of beta. I might buy it.

musashiken said:
This has been labeled as warez in xda since it's a leaked beta. But I suppose people can talk about it as long they don't share the apk file..
I've played with it for a while but because I can't choose the default phone and browser app, I stopped playing with it. Also eats lots of ram.
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Did you get the gallery app, weather page that comes with it to work?

Yeah i like the look of SPB more than Honeycomb. I hope its doesn't get bought by RIM like they did to TAT.

Its faster than ADW EX for me.

Anyone get it to work with the evo?

TheHonkey said:
Anyone get it to work with the evo?
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Did you try it and get compatibility error?

matrix2004 said:
Yeah i like the look of SPB more than Honeycomb. I hope its doesn't get bought by RIM like they did to TAT.
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I really doubt that's going to happen. SPB is a big company from what I understand (google them).
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Anyways, I did try it out, but had to remove it since I kept getting unending "Activating..." and reloading.
But my impressions while I did use it were:
3D look very cool. But not especially useful.
Instant tap and click widgets very useful and great idea.
Lack of app drawer is undesirable.
It has some cool stuff, but isn't anything "groundbreaking" imo. SPB charged consumers about $30 for this on WM and Symbian I believe, doing the same on Android would be quite insane (considering it doesn't add any huge benefits like it did for those OS). I'm curious to see what they plan to charge, and it's something I could consider using as my default launcher... but nothing truly fantastic about it imo.

I used SPB at great lengths with my Windows phones. It was a resource hog, but it still ran smooth and looked awesome.
Didn't know they were actually working on Android...cool

Yep says its not compatible with my device.

works with the epic unfortunately.....

TheHonkey said:
Yep says its not compatible with my device.
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Does it say spb loading overtop of that?

It takes forever to load on my Samsung I9000, but works well once it does. Amazingly smooth and the widgets look great. Could take some getting used to though!

What's The Best Handwriting Note Taking App For Honeycomb ?

Hey there
listen! I really like honeycomb an I hate iOS but the iOS apps are so beautiful and the honeycomb apps are kind of lame!
Is there an app for honeycomb like the "bamboo paper" app for ipad?
(google it!)
and what note taking (handwriting) are you using?

I haven't heard of anything, so I am interested myself. I just bought a stylus and am looking to use it in something other than Sketchbook Pro. But as far as that goes it is a nice app, you may be able to use it for note taking.

steel looking for an app! sketchbook pro is good for the sketching, doodling, painting and basically art and stuff!
i need a note taking app !

TabNotes looks and works quite good.

i just searched "handwriting" in the market and tried out three different apps similar to bamboo paper. They all seem to work pretty well.
The three I tried:
Genial Writing
Handrite
MyLetter

I have tried the Touchwiz on my TF.
And there is a tool that can let you take notes by either handwriting or using keyboard.
Also, the tool is movable like the windows at PC.
You can call that tool whenever and wherever by not affecting your current app.
That's really cool.
I hope the TouchWiz UI for TF would be updated soon.

its working good? i think i might put touchwiz on my tf too!
is it stable?

I like tabnotes the best, and in second place i put makenotes. i have also tried genial and handrite but the above two are much better imo.

been using genial, tab notes, maple paint, and love them all. Just started using free note and am really enjoying it the best.
Try free note.

Handrite search on the market
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i use free note.

so there STILL isn't an app that can do both handwritting and text in the same note?
wow, just, wow
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There is now, it's called FreeNote
thanks idontknowu2

not entirely sure I get you but I use freenote and I'm pretty sure it does both of those, just confused because freenote was mentioned and you still asked this...?
klau1 said:
so there STILL isn't an app that can do both handwritting and text in the same note?
wow, just, wow
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There is now, it's called FreeNote
thanks idontknowu2
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FreeNote
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.suishouxie.freenote&feature=search_result
It is not compatiable with TF??

MakeNotes is by far the best I've used. It's clean and simple, but does everything I would want (other than letting me enter text with the keyboard). It even gives you a spot to rest your palm while writing. Definitely what I've been waiting for.

kyleongwl said:
FreeNote
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.suishouxie.freenote&feature=search_result
It is not compatiable with TF??
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Works well on mine...?

Hakizi said:
MakeNotes is by far the best I've used. It's clean and simple, but does everything I would want (other than letting me enter text with the keyboard). It even gives you a spot to rest your palm while writing. Definitely what I've been waiting for.
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Got a link? I can't find it in the market.

Underwater Mike said:
Got a link? I can't find it in the market.
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Found it
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.makemobile.makenotes&feature=search_result

mrevankyle said:
Found it
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.makemobile.makenotes&feature=search_result
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wow! just found the best app on the planet!
thank you so much!

Well, MakeNotes is pretty good, but is still a work in progress. The palm pad area is an amazing concept. However, making the notes portable / convertible to PDF will be even more awesome. Also, scrolling is non existent(Or it may be that I am dumb and I dont know how to). TabNotes is the best note taking app rite now. Simple, yet powerful.
There is an App called Whiteboard, but it force closes constantly atleast for me. So, wouldnt recommend it.

[SOLVED] Can I Copy Spare Parts from CM7 to Infused?

What kind of problems would I be looking at if I copied/installed the Spare Parts apk from CM7 over to the Infused v2.0.2 ROM? Would it work or would it seriously screw me up? I'm only interested in getting it because I have screen density set to 200 right now and some of my apps don't fit the entire screen. I've found fixes on a couple of the apps, but not all. I remember on my Aria there was an option I chose in spare parts and it forced everything to resize. I think it was the compatibility mode setting. I don't want to install CM7 just yet. Waiting on bluetooth support.
BTW, I did search first but didn't find the answer in any other forum. However, my search-fu is kinda weak. lol
Thanks for any help!

02ranger said:
What kind of problems would I be looking at if I copied/installed the Spare Parts apk from CM7 over to the Infused v2.0.2 ROM? Would it work or would it seriously screw me up? I'm only interested in getting it because I have screen density set to 200 right now and some of my apps don't fit the entire screen. I've found fixes on a couple of the apps, but not all. I remember on my Aria there was an option I chose in spare parts and it forced everything to resize. I think it was the compatibility mode setting. I don't want to install CM7 just yet. Waiting on bluetooth support.
BTW, I did search first but didn't find the answer in any other forum. However, my search-fu is kinda weak. lol
Thanks for any help!
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My theory...make a nandroid and try it!!!
i may give it a shot too. i will update you later
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It should be in the market.

is there a difference between spare parts in cm7 and the versions in the market?

gtg465x said:
It should be in the market.
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Dani897 said:
is there a difference between spare parts in cm7 and the versions in the market?
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The market version has advertisements added. Really shady if you ask me, taking a free open source app, putting ads into it, and then throwing it up on the market.

Entropy512 said:
The market version has advertisements added. Really shady if you ask me, taking a free open source app, putting ads into it, and then throwing it up on the market.
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I noticed a few months ago that a few guys had done that....added a feature or two...mostly ui changes...then called it their own and charged for it as well as offered a free/with ads version.
Seeing more and more of that
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Wow, I had no idea it was in the market. haha. thanks everybody that did the trick for the most part. Some of the apps are still not the right size but it fixed the ones I use the most. I really appreciate the quick responses.

Dani897 said:
is there a difference between spare parts in cm7 and the versions in the market?
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The one I downloaded appeared to have a few more options. It also had ads at the bottom, but oh well.