Twitter clients on Android are one of the areas that still need work, so we’re always happy to see new competition. TweetCaster is promising to be faster and more fully-featured than anything else, and has dropped into the Android Market today.
All the usual functionality you’d expect is onboard, including photo support, URL shortening, profile views, threaded conversations, favorites and DM/replies. You can also have multiple Twitter accounts active simultaneously, something missing from a lot of clients we see.
There’s a free version (with banner ads) and a Pro paid-version for $4.99 up for grabs. We’ve been testing out a pre-release beta version of TweetCaster for the past week or so; expect our review up later on today.
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Just installed this and there doesn't appear to be any adds. Maybe the free upgrade key is to get a few users involved?
The app itself looks slick and smooth. native url shortening (although no option to add your bit.ly api key is present), pic uploading support, lists, followers etc all look nice. Multi accounts work well too. Adding pics/links in new tweets is a breeze.
Clicking on links in tweets gives you the option to either open the link (this calls the browser - twidroid does this better by opeing links in the app itself) or to copy the link to clipboard.
Quick-clicking on any tweet gives you the option of either adding as a fave or deleting the tweet (if it's one of your own), while long-pressing gives you the option to go to the tweeters profile.
You can look at trends, perform searches or location-based searches from the main page with ease.
I've spotted a couple of things..
My last tweet was over an hour ago (this shows in the timeline OK) but at the bottom of the page it says 'last updated under 1m ago'
Although you can set it to notify you on certain activity, there is no persistent notification bar icon (like the one Twidroid uses).
Doesn't look like you can view multiple accounts in the same timeline. You have to back to the main options page and then swap accounts. Not a major problem, but has been done better elsewhere.
All-in-all it has the potential to give Twidroid pro a run for it's money. Once the developer has smoothed a few things out (notification bar option etc) then I really can see this sharing the top spot with Twidroid Pro.
They should add ping.fm api
Its better than seesmic app
Hmmm.. twidroid please there is new kid in town!!!!
It's an alright app.
I don't think I really have the hang of it yet though, sometimes it will tell me I have a new @/mention notificaation in the tab and often times it doesn't when I do.
As far as UI wise go...I was using an Ipod Touch for a few weeks and got Echon and some other Tweet involving name app, I just think a good Twitter UI requires a bigger screen.
But I guess the GUI in TweetCaster beats Sessmic just cause there's embedding/ the stammped arrow to go to your profile and the pencil though bubble to tweet.