Carbon for Android is finally seeing the light of the day after being in
development for almost a year. The Twitter client is now
available as a
free download in the Google Play store. Makers of the app, Dots &
Lines, say that the the differentiating feature of the client is that it
gives users access to all of their Twitter content in one screen
without the need to drill down to different screens. Carbon for Android
offers the user's Timeline, Mentions, and Messages on the home screen,
and Lists, Favorites, and Trends as an extended screen to the main
screen.
It's noteworthy that the app doesn't work on Android tablets,
and the developers have said that they're working on a separate tablet
app. It's worth pointing out that Twitter now restricts third party
Twiter clients to a limit of 100,000 API tokens. Dots & Lines said
that they wanted to use all tokens for phone users who will be able to
experience the full Carbon experience rather than offering an extended
or tricked up experience of their phone app on tablets. The app does not
support real-time updates at the moment.
The app offers a graphite
background theme and sports features like the ability to refresh the
Timeline by tilting the phone, Scrolling/Swiping up or down using Two
fingers to jump to top or bottom of Timelines, rich Timeline view with
full inline images and videos, Tap+Hold on individual tweets to get
actions (reply, retweet, favourite) right on the Timeline, a
QuickTimeline button on the home screen for access to Lists, Searches,
Trends, Favourites and others, conversation view, background updates
with quick actions for Jelly Bean (on the notification bar), and Filters
for Hashtags, Users, and Keywords.
Dots & Lines had
previously developed Carbon for WebOS, Graphite for WebOS tablets and
Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter clients. They've stopped development
for all these apps and are presently focusing only on the Android
version.
Carbon for Android:
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