Fragt man nach den besten Twitter Klienten für Windows Phone, so fallen unweigerlich folgende drei Namen: Mehdoh, Carbon und Rowi. Nachdem die Entwickler hinter Rowi lange auf sich warten lassen haben, ist heute das versprochene große Update erschienen. So erwarten Euch viele neue Funktionen und Verbesserungen. Hierzu zählen unter anderem der Fast-App-Switching-Support, verbesserte Toast Notifications, Unterstützung von RTL („Rechts nach Links“) – Sprachen usw. Der überaus lange Changelog im Detail:
Features:
- Readability integration for viewing web pages and saving bookmarks for later reading (added to Rowi’s save for later functionality)
- Support for RTL (Right to Left) languages display for tweets/messages
- New context menu for quick and easy access to common actions for tweets/messages (tap to open the menu, double-tap to select the tweet/message/item)
- You can now pin any home timeline, new tweet, new tweet #nowplaying, new message and search to your Windows Phone start screen
- Fast app switching support and now using the OS’ progress indicator (yes, Rowi is finally updated to take advantage of the latest major Windows Phone OS a.k.a. Mango)
Home
- New reading experience for read/unread tweets/messages on the home timelines
- New reading style marks tweets as read as you scroll up (default/configurable behavior)
- Scroll to top automatically marks all tweets as read (by default)
- New column types (including but not limited to: retweets, favorites, etc.)
- Retweets are now included in list timelines
- Photo previews for tweets in timelines
Tweet
- Tweet details page expands all t.co shortented URLs to show the originally tweeted URL
- Tweet details now show who retweeted it
- Conversation view on tweet details page
- Tweet details page now uses the same (new) RT popup as context menu
- Added a save for later button on tweet details page
Message conversation
- Updated the message conversation style to better match the OS messaging conversation UI
New tweet
- Now playing added to new tweet screen to let you tweet about what you’re listening to
- New (remaining) character counter UI when composing new tweets or messages
- New image uploading services – Lockerz, yfrog, Twitter and TwitPic are all now supported
- Bitly URL shortening removed since twitter will shorten all URLs to t.co anyway
- Replying to a retweet now includes the retweeter
User profiles
- New “is following me” text on profiles to better understand mutual follow relationships
- Mentions pivot added to user profiles
Settings
- New settings UI (tweaked for simplicity)
- New setting to specify preferred reading direction (newest, down or oldest, up). This affects where Rowi positions the timeline when new tweets are loaded
- New setting to skip the new tweets indicator and just auto-loading new tweets with an info message box across the top of the screen
- New setting to make all tweet calls to Twitter return the max amount of tweets (200)
- New setting to automatically load conversations on tweet details
- New setting to open the context menu on tap and hold instead of on tap (and select item on tap instead of double-tap)
- New setting to manually set tweets as read (instead of automatically when scrolled into view)
Notifications
- Toast notifications now display inside of Rowi and take you to see the new tweets when tapped
- Added Rowi to the share menu
More awesomeness
- Toasts for Mentions and Messages now take you to the correct mentions and messages pivots respectively in Rowi when tapped on. Yay! We know, it’s the little things.
- Better error message on invalid login
- Made info message box bigger so it’s easier to swipe away
- More accurate message for bad gateway errors from Twitter
- Changed placement of followers/following on user profiles to match Twitter.com
- When finished writing a new tweet from the new tweet tile, tapping the back button exits Rowi
- …plus a whole lot of refinement and bug fixes along the way
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