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official facebook app?

Hey are they ever going to release an official facebook app for our phones from the website like they do with the iphone and blackberrys?

Interestingly, rumors started flying around the internet yesterday/today about Facebook possibly releasing an official app. I don't make it a habit to post new threads based on rumors, but you can read some info about this here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/2...k-and-google-work-together-on-an-android-app/
http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ncl=dZCKUtSuPS9aQTMWoeUeRsnoXR0LM
If the rumors are true, we'll find out shortly.

yea, not supposed to be as "full featured" But i guess rumors are saying as soon as this week

I cant wait.

Well, lets examine the evidence here and see what we can devise:
-Facebook just opened up their mobile shop for TMO users after years of screwing us over.
-TMO has been talking rumors of an official facebook app to be launched alongside the sherpa release when the MT3g comes out.
-The MT3g comes out next week.
So I'd say odds are pretty good.

kusotare said:
Well, lets examine the evidence here and see what we can devise:
-Facebook just opened up their mobile shop for TMO users after years of screwing us over.
-TMO has been talking rumors of an official facebook app to be launched alongside the sherpa release when the MT3g comes out.
-The MT3g comes out next week.
So I'd say odds are pretty good.
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great analysis haha

Don't want to rain on your party, just spoke to a T-Mobile rep to activate the vv. Asked about the facebook app, mid August was the reply.

mid august is two weeks from now. thats not that long.

mrodlies said:
Don't want to rain on your party, just spoke to a T-Mobile rep to activate the vv. Asked about the facebook app, mid August was the reply.
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it will be out when the mt3g is available

Mid august or a few more days really does not make a big difference. G1 users have been waiting for a good facebook app since we got our phones 9 months ago. its just hope that when it gets here, it'll deliver on what most of us are looking for.

Check this: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Android
Could be useful for devs?

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Mid august or a few more days really does not make a big difference. G1 users have been waiting for a good facebook app since we got our phones 9 months ago. its just hope that when it gets here, it'll deliver on what most of us are looking for.
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Have you tried Babbler? The pay version is better, but this one works just fine.
Everything you need but inbox (which, apparently the official one won't support anyways).

Leaked Images of Official Facebook Android App thanks to (contriver87 on AndroidCommunity.com)
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OP - http://androidcommunity.com/forums/229513-post48.html

well, now we know its coming for sure. all we gotta do is wait.

screens look slick although i had to zoom in.
widget looks cool too.
been using x.facebook.com and holding out for an official facebook app

I am really looking forward to trying this app. I dont even care if its a paid app. I was mega excited when I first tried Babbler and the same with Bloo. This app looks like it will work as expected with likes, replies and what not, I just hope they throw a few 'nice touches' into the app, and include things like photo uploads and tagging.
I must agree the widget does look kinda cool. I just hope it doesnt drain the battery like twidget.
Until then...

Has anyone else seen a problem with bringing up facebook comments through the email alerts if theyre sent to your phone? I click on the links in the email alerts in gmail and it takes me to the person's mobile profile for some reason. It used to take me to the desktop version page so i can see the comments, but its been forwarding to the mobile site

Well it looks like slowly android is coming around. If we get a good facebook app, and turn by turn nav, I might just keep this phone for a while, Yaaa.

Capt Fiero said:
Well it looks like slowly android is coming around. If we get a good facebook app, and turn by turn nav, I might just keep this phone for a while, Yaaa.
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I heard somewhere that Garmin was making an Android app, but don't quote me on that
edit: also there is already turn-by-turn nav for the G1. google "telenav". engadget says it is pretty snappy. been around since february.

Garmin making a sat nav would be brilliant! Cannot find telenav on the UK market can someone confirm its there?

[APP] BloomDroid (Bloomberg application for Android)

Sorry guys, Bloomberg asked me to discontinue the development of this app. So I'm removing the download link and will not continue to work on this
Hi everyone,
I have begun to work on a financial application for Android. It is called BloomDroid. As the name suggests, this application retreives data from Bloomberg data system (ie the website:mobile.bloomberg.com).
The version I post here is a very early beta and I'm planning to add many more features (of course limited with what bloomberg offers on its website)
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The app is not available in the Android Market for now. I want it to mature a little before then.
You can download the app from: (app removed by request from bberg)
It requires full internet access permission for internet access and sd card write access to store charts.
It downloads 7-8 kb per query, so be careful if you do not have an unlimited plan.
Features:
- Retreive company name, description, price and change(%) for given quote. You must provide company ticker in XXXX:YY form, XXXX is the ticker for company, YY is the country code. such as GOOG:US, 4338:HK, GGQ1:GR, AAPL:US, 2788:JP
- Lookup for company ticker
Planned:
- A list of equities (like in stock Stocks program)
- News from Bloomberg
- Markets and currencies.
- Maybe a widget.

Changelog:
19/12/2009 - v.0.0.2
- Now you have a stock list!!
- Charts are saved on sdcard/bloomdroid
- many many bug fixes
21/10/2009 - v.0.0.1
- Bug fixes.
19/10/2009 - v.0.0.0
- Initial release.
- Can retreive any quote on Bloomberg web site.

that is a cool idea. i want a better widget for stock portfolio

cracking little app, love it!

I've released an update for this app.
Would like to hear the comments of investor members

will it work with milestone?

It's cool !
Is it possible to draw a simple and advanced technical chart i.e. simple moving average, rsi, stochastic, cci, bollinger band, macd,
It would be perfect if the above wish list become real.

please don't forget to make WVGA version, thanks.

suree_n said:
please don't forget to make WVGA version, thanks.
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^^^+1
Is this app dead or is the developer still updating it? Hope so bc I love BB's commodities, futures and currency quotes.

Hey guys, app is not dead.. Just I didn't get enough encouragement to continue working on it. But now that I see at least 3 new users , I'll resume working on it as soon as I have some free time.

Please make an update for 800*480 for my htc desire!
Bloomberg official app is the only thing i envy from iphone users..!

Sorry guys, I've stopped working on this after being approached from BloomBerg to halt development. We have to wait for their official app I guess.

did they mention when theyd think theyd release it?

Indy_Hero said:
did they mention when theyd think theyd release it?
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There is talk of Android at the Bloomberg URL, can't be long now...

bloomberg official app is out now!

Hi,
What SDK you used to develop that app ? were you using the one from Google or use 3rd party tool ?

[App] My Workout

Hey guys, as some of you may know, i've been working for a while now on my app, My Workout.
Here is the description of My Workout:
"My Workout allows you to save your workout routines to an easy to access, easy to read schedule. My workout also has a stopwatch included for rest time between sets and a 1 rep max calculator. Important tools for the gym!
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I've been a busy coder on this one.
Recently i've added the following features:
Ability to import exercises from previously entered routines
and just now The Ability to share your workout (export) via email!
Currently the app in the market is version 1.5.0.0 and works really well, it however doesn't have the last two additions.
Build 1.7.00 will include both of these. I am currently waiting for build 1.6.00 to be approved (that includes the import exercises from previous exercise) feature and unfortunately for the testers will be immediately submitting 1.7.00 for approval.
The app is free, check it out and give a review.
Here are some videos of some of the older builds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVoqy0xYmNg (that is build 1.3)
Thanks,
microhaxo

Update added to market!
http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=0b90f4cd-9dd5-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
- free as always.

Beautiful!
Would have liked to see an option for using metric units as well (Kg vs LBS). I'm living in Europe where we use the (logical) SI-system.
Good work!

Thanks for the comment! I'll add the option for metric units in the next update.

updated to support KG. Also allow for a total reset of saved routines.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for this! I work out 4 days a week and this will be great to use

kennyken747 said:
Thanks for this! I work out 4 days a week and this will be great to use
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Welcome, i'm glad i could help out a fellow gym member.

Ok guys, this is getting a little frustrating..
I need people to try my app out and give me some feedback.
This is the most recent feedback:
Godless Biker:
"Feels like a placeholder for an app that actually does something"
I am not sure how to even take that...
When i read something like that this is what goes through my mind (biased of course since i wrote the app)
1. Did they even read the description????
2. Did they even attempt to use the app???
3. Do they even know how windows phone 7 ui works?
4. Im surprised they were able to rate the app seeing as though they weren't competent enough to use it. (sorry, anger..)
It's frustrating that i am unable to know why they think that way.
So i am asking you guys. Please if you workout at the gym please give the app a try and give me some feedback. Comments like Godless Biker's are completely useless and quite frankly id be surprised if he really actually used the app......
If you want to just try it out and give me feedback please do:
http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=0b90f4cd-9dd5-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
Description:
My Workout is a handy app that allows you to save your workout routines to an easy to access and easy to read schedule. My workout also has a stopwatch included for rest time between sets and a 1 rep max calculator. Important tools for the gym!

thx for sharing

Thanks. It's really help me in training.

Possible Suggestion: With exporting the workouts, is it possible to save to SkyDrive? They have some new APIs, so it would be nice if the files can be saved and retrieved from Skydrive account.

Wow, im surprised this is still getting interest. Unfortunately i abandoned this project a while ago due to poor code design by me. ( learned much since then ) I no longer have the source code but if the interest is there i could possibly re-write this app with some mango features and possibly skydrive support. I wrote this app to help me with my workouts at the gym, but i have frequently found my self simply using word / excel to track my workouts.

[APP] Imagewind [BANNED from Marketplace] Your Eye on the Interwebs!

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this is not my app, but i never saw it here and a search didnt pop it up, so maybe some of you dont know it. i dont see why ms would bann it, but yeah, if you interrested in the story check his website:
http://smartypantscoding.com/R_I_P_-Imagewind-for-Windows-Phone
but i love the app!
design is perfect
function is always good to kill some minutes
basicly it will show you all pictures that are posted on twitter at the moment.
it does that with sleek animations and you can always digg deeper into the content.
where the picture can be viewed like you would want it on a touchscreen.
one more time i have to say, awesome design!
not like those "i just started programming 99cent apps"
this is really worth checking out, only available via xap sideload...
download here:
http://imagewind.net/wp7/
also dont miss the silverlight webapp over here:
http://imagewind.net/
awesome stuff!!!​

this is cool! thanks. i dont like twitter but i like this haha

oh good i've found it, thanks! works perffect!

app slowed to a crawl
Have been using this app for around a month now and i must say its great fun, almost hypnotic. However yesterday the picture generation started to run slowly, then crawl, now it takes around 5 mins per line to populate.
So has anyone else experienced this behaviour from the app? does anybody know if the development is still going with the app or if there is a newer version than the one posted here?
FYI i have uninstalled the app and reinstalled to no avail and i have tried to contact the developer via the web page comments section but the Capture window does not work and so i cannot leave a comment.
Any help would be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Creamy

I can't download the xap file.

There you go:

OK so I have no idea if SmartyPantsCoding is still supporting this, but the app has slowed down because it can't see most of the image URLs on twitter anymore.
Twitter has started shortening ALL URLs on it's service automatically using the t.co service. This means the app cant search the timeline for items with pictures in them (at least not without some re-coding) tho for some unknown reason, tweetphoto links still work. These might be the only links twitter doesn't shorten.
This sucks for us who liked the phone app (and the website imagewind.net) but it means Twitter can now get analytics info, which I gather they have now made available......

nice App
Thanks

bitbrat said:
OK so I have no idea if SmartyPantsCoding is still supporting this, but the app has slowed down because it can't see most of the image URLs on twitter anymore.
Twitter has started shortening ALL URLs on it's service automatically using the t.co service. This means the app cant search the timeline for items with pictures in them (at least not without some re-coding) tho for some unknown reason, tweetphoto links still work. These might be the only links twitter doesn't shorten.
This sucks for us who liked the phone app (and the website imagewind.net) but it means Twitter can now get analytics info, which I gather they have now made available......
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Its been re released and is working nicely on my Mango HD7. I doubt it will make it to the marketplace again so here is the Xap
Kind Regards,
Creamy

Anyone happen to have a version 1.2 xap ? Ver 1.1 doesn't work, and 1.3 (above) doesn't support Twitter.
1.2 is supposed to do both Twitter & Flickr. I'm not sure it's past the url issues that broke 1.1, just thought I'd ask if it's out there. Thanks.
EDIT: The above xap does have an option in setting to switch to "unsafe" mode, which pulls pics from Twitter. Works flawlessly. My bad.

thanks, great find!

[GAME] Banzai Birds - [R] - 2011/07/21 - [V] 1.0.0.0

My new game Banzai Birds has hit the Windows Phone Marketplace, and the best news is that I have decided to make it free!
The first episode consists of 20 challenging levels of dodging, diving and fleeing (from evil owls) each testing your timing and reflexes using the accelerometer .
Two additional episodes updates are to follow, each with 20 levels, gameplay updates and new graphics.
I'm taking suggestions for improvements for the next episodes so if you have any cracking ideas lets have them!
thanks all!
Zune:http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=4085396b-6397-47cf-99e2-4c694b943c9e
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1B2m3cI0uA

I couldn't find it in the marketplace, so I followed your link. Is it not available in the EU (Germany)? I can't download it ("Download" never appears on my phone).

Localhorst86 said:
I couldn't find it in the marketplace, so I followed your link. Is it not available in the EU (Germany)? I can't download it ("Download" never appears on my phone).
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Yes it's really annoying. Microsoft's new publishing system requests a Content Rating for submitted apps for each country you want to publish to. not all countries require a rating, unfortunately Germany is one.
if you can side load go here...
http://www.mobileleaderboards.com/sire-assemblies/BanzaiBirds.rar
If you like it please review.
thanks!

Why, thank you. That is some good information to have. I'll sideload your game later, probably.
By "requests content rating", what exactly do you mean? How do you get your content rating? Will this mean that games will come delayed to those markets? Does MS offer this "service" to its developers, or do you have to get it yourself?

I need to read up on it a little more to see what I need to do / get around it.
Here in the UK we have U rating for kids and 18 rating for adult content but its not a requirement for games hence I could sell my unrated app in the UK.
I guess Germany requires a rating of some sort for games?

Yes, in Germany you need to have a USK Rating on games you sell (0, 6, 12, 16, 18), but I never knew this was needed for "digital distribution" as well.
Anyways, afaiu, the USK rating board has to review your game and, at least that's how it seems to me, this takes several months... But I am not too familiar with the whole process, so I can't tell for sure. Surely, MS must provide you with information about this... I just hope this is not the end of games for my WP7 because they'd make it hard for developers to get the rating..?
EDIT: I now checked the USK Site. Currently, games can only obtain a USK rating if they are provided on physical media (DVD, CD etc.), not digitaly distributed games (allthough, they can get the rating as well, if they are additionally provided on physical media). They are *planning* to extend this to "non-physical" games, but haven't yet done so... So, not sure what I should make of that.

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/87527.aspx
Looks like it could be a while. Ridiculous really Germany is a good source for downloads

Thanks all for your suggestions.
I have upgraded Banzai Birds now at V1.1, changing the initial level designs, new graphics and better parachute control.
Get your update now!
Zune : http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=4085396b-6397-47cf-99e2-4c694b943c9e
Twitter : @Sire_Assemblies
Facebook: Sire Assemblies
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UPDATED Version for sideloading
Hi all, for those that require side loading to play Banzai Birds here is the link for the upgrade>>
http://www.mobileleaderboards.com/sire-assemblies/banzaiBirds.rar
Version 1.1

After a WP7 marketplace bug fix, Banzai Birds is now available in Germany!
http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=4085396b-6397-47cf-99e2-4c694b943c9e

This is a realy nice Game. I love it.
Thank you, that is the game for free.

Have you reviewed it on the marketplace?
us developers need all the help we can get

yes, it's true.

very nice game!