Multigesture.net » Android http://www.multigesture.net A Multi-touch and Multi-gesture research blog Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:29:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 fIRC Android Chat Client released! http://www.multigesture.net/2008/12/22/firc-android-chat-client-released/ http://www.multigesture.net/2008/12/22/firc-android-chat-client-released/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:09:10 +0000 Laurence Muller http://www.multigesture.net/?p=283 A few months ago Google and T-mobile introduced the T-mobile G1 (aka googlephone). What makes this smartphone so special, is the fact that the operating system (Android) is open source. While most end-users wouldn’t care about this, developers have more freedom in improving or fixing parts of the OS.

As usual we Europeans get all the ‘new’ electronic devices 6 months later than the US or Asia. Often these devices cost more as well (for example iPhones, PSPs, NDS) because someone decided that 1 USD == 1 EUR. Luckily I was able to get a T-mobile G1 just before I left the states :) .

Today I released my first application on the android marketplace (something similar like the apple store). It is an IRC chat client called fIRC:

fIRC chat is a free IRC client.

Current features:

  • Connect to irc servers such as Freenode and EFnet
  • Supports only one channel for now
  • Only landscape mode for now…

Available user commands:

  • To change your current nickname: /nick changeme
  • To request a user list: /userlist

Todo:

  • Server message output
  • Multichannel support
  • PM support
  • A better way to visualize the userlist (another listview?)
  • Nicer GUI for the chat area

A few screenshots:

Suggestions, bug reports and comments can be posted here. The project page can be found here.

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