Loquacious Apps

I firmly believe that Loquacious offers the best (and certainly most Android-y) experience of any Twitter client available on the platform at the moment. And the feedback I’ve gotten so far has been pretty positive. I am aware, though, that there are more feature-ful clients available to you at the moment. And since I chose to release Loquacious with fairly basic functionality, it’s only fair that I should keep you informed of what’s coming up in the future.

All of the features for the next release are currently working but in need of some serious polish and debugging, so I’m happy to let you know that you can expect:

• Search
• TwitPic integration
• URL shortening
• A much-improved multi-user UI

I’ve also put some work into the laggy scrolling that some people have reported, and I think you’ll be pleased with the improvements there. I appreciate the feedback on that.

My main target for the following release will be background notifications. I’ve been letting ideas marinate for a while about how to make that the best experience possible (and most parsimonious with resources). And since there are actually things to prefer about that, you’ll finally be getting that preferences screen. (Though, frankly, as cool as Android’s preferences framework is, I’d be happy to leave that out as long as I could. Less is more.)

Twitter is in the process of switching authorization from basic HTTP to OAuth. Unfortunately, OAuth can be painful for user’s of a client application. The changes I made to the multi-user UI had this switch in mind, I’ll also be working on ways to make this less painful than a lot of the implementations I’ve seen so far.

So, that’s what’s on the agenda at Loquacious Apps. Thanks for your interest, and let me know what you’d like to see.