Maemo 5: Basic gesture support in python
Once I got witter to the point that it had multiple views, I immediately wanted to have a nice way to switch between those views. In the first instance I just used buttons which have the advantage of being able to go direct to the view you want, but at the cost of screen space…
Custom cell renderer
As a teaser to a future post I thought I’d post an early screenshot of Witter using a custom cell renderer.
Using threads to do background work for maemo python app.
One of the most common requests for Witter has been to do auto-refresh on feeds. The challenge of doing this is having to switch from a single threaded user driven app, to a multi threaded app. This brings a bunch of challenges. For me the first was wanting to separate my code into separate python…
Developing python for maemo 5
I wrote before about my little attempt to write a basic twitter client for the n810 and n900.It now has it’s own page here on my blog.It has come on a long way in a fairly short space of time. It still doesn’t support OAuth, and it’s still a monolithic app rather than a nicely engineered one.