Introducing qTwitter
February 27th, 2009
Ok, it’s high time. I’d like to present you my first app shown to the world. qTwitter is a Twitter client written in Qt. The current version is 0.4 and it seems to be pretty stable at the moment. It is based on a http connection to the Twitter REST API, parsing the requested XML data and displaying processed info in a list pimped with customized item widgets. As for usability, it provides:
- getting public or friends timeline + (optionally) direct messages,
- posting (including replying and retweeting) and deleting updates,
- being recognized as a source of updates,
- UI color themes,
- HTTP proxy support,
- translation to Polish, Catalan and Spanish (poor ones, but anyway),
and it looks more or less like below:
It’s actually my first complex decent application in Qt, and in the same time a thing thanks to which I learnt a loooooot of Qt — and I still do. Concerning the code itself — I realize that it’s pretty messy at the moment, but I’m still working on cleaning it up so that it can be easily understandable. The source code for qTwitter is hosted on GitHub, and the app is also available as a binary for MacOS X and several Linux distros at qt-apps.org ← you’ll find there more information as well as the full changelog. Go and check it out now!
