TWEETBOT IOS 7 REDESIGN UPDATE
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The app’s reliance on motion to tell its story once again makes a good argument for “video” or “animated” screenshots on the App Store. Try tapping on a media link and you’ll get a full-screen image that can be moved around with a finger and tossed off the screen in any direction - enabled by Apple’s new dynamics engine. The personality of Tweetbot 3 really peeks through when you encounter animated elements though. I also wouldn’t mind a discrete font-size control within the app, separately from the system controls. I’d love it if you could tap to drop the action pane as you can in the main timeline. The one complaint that I have with Tweetbot 3’s new interface is that once you’ve drilled down into a conversation, you must drill down one more level on another tweet in that conversation to favorite or retweet it. Tapping on a tweet still swings down the quick-action pane and tapping-to-hold offers additional features like copying links. This means that you’ll see your newest tweets as soon as you open the app, a major improvement on the old “open and refresh” behavior. Tweetbot 3 also features background tweet fetching using Apple’s new APIs. It takes some getting used to if you commonly used the replies view, but it’s less confusing over all. Haddad says that this was to eliminate the confusion between the reply and conversation views. One major change that many will notice is that there is only a single directional swipe (right to left) to expand Twitter conversations now. The tweets obey Apple’s system-wide font-sizing controls under Dynamic Type Size if you want to fit more on the page. The main timeline of Tweetbot 3 has a brand-new lighter look with a white background and crisp typography. Especially for an app as distinct as Tweetbot. Going from a very illustrative style to one that has to convey personality via subtle animations and clever uses of Apple’s new physics system is no small feat. Part of this is the natural effect that iOS 7’s ‘shock to the system’ has had on all apps, but a lot more of it is a careful re-evaluation of what makes Tweetbot work. Within a couple of days of using the new app it was nearly impossible for me to look at the old version of Tweetbot for any extended period. Everything is lighter, brighter and more readable overall. That sense of joy permeates the app, with subtle animations and wonderfully redone audio cues. We used Physics and custom transitions to add that sense of joy that we add to our apps,” Tapbots’ Paul Haddad says of the Tweetbot 3 redesign.

“We wanted to have a very clean and iOS 7 look to Tweetbot, with a strong focus on content. iOS 7 is all about physicality and far less about the illustrative pixel-perfect character of iOS 6.

A nip and tuck here and there for sure, but only a few were stripped down and redone with Apple’s new indicators in mind. When iOS 7 was released, we saw a lot of updates come down the pipe that were little more than a re-skinning of iOS 7 apps. And with the iOS 7 update, it’s going to set another sort of precedent by showing what you can do with a truly bones-deep re-thinking of an app with Apple’s new aesthetic in mind.

The app is a paid upgrade, which is available for $2.99 at launch and will go up to $4.99 after the initial sale.Īs one of the most popular third-party clients available for Twitter, the app has become the poster child for what outside developers brought to the Twitter equation.

TWEETBOT IOS 7 REDESIGN FULL

This means we can say goodbye to the tap inside the tweet to see the video or photo – they will be shown in the stream.Today marks the launch of the full rewrite of Tweetbot for iOS 7.

TWEETBOT IOS 7 REDESIGN UPDATE

In fact, they say the update will focus on improving the visual experience, with multimedia coming more into focus. Notably new, there will also be a stream dedicated entirely to photos shared on Twitter (an idea that Facebook included with its segmented News Feed redesign months ago) There will be the main reverse-chronological stream that current users are familiar with, as well as a stream for interactions between other users and conversations they’re having. So, what is the rumour mill saying about the new Twitter interface? Well, first of all, the four tabs we have got used to at the bottom are set to be replaced by swiping through different content-focused streams (via AllThingsD). A small update is said to be arriving shortly after iOS 7 goes public later this week ( September 18), while the richer, prettier, and far more visual interface overhaul is rumoured to be landing later on.

With over a billion registered users, Twitter is preparing a third major mobile app interface redesign in the not-too-distant future.

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