[ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

Hi!
This is my first real maemo application.
It's a python+qt based application for foursquare.

[Updated 2012-04-23]

For those living on the edge (following extras-devel), you'll have noticed plenty of updates during the last month or so.
For those who aren't here's an update on what changed since my initial release:

Features / Fixed bugs

• Seaching for nearby venues, list visited venues, or todo venues.
• Checking-in (duh), and seeing/adding/marking tips.
• Leaderboard, some basic info on your friends.
• A brand new button to check-in where your friends are!
• Non-english characters work now - at least spanish ones to, please report if others don't.
• I've added a "please wait" screen to most places that were missing it, but there's still some work to do there.
• Where to post: facebook, twitter, etc
• Show the last checkin in the main screen (you can see this though the leaderboard in the meantime).

Wishlist
These features are on my list. I'll try to work though this list in-order, but no promises.

• Make all those buttons that say "TO DO" work. Access a list of places you/your friends are mayor of.
• "Recent Activity" list, with comment capabilities.

Since I didn't have a decent data-plan when I started programming this, it tends to cache everything possible (while updating data on a background). Whenever you open a list (ie: leaderboard), you'll see the data from last time, while the new data is downloaded and updated in the background.

You can also choose to use AGPS, cell-tower-positioning (since the N900's GPS seems to suck a bit), or use the locations of your last checkin as a reference for searches/etc, whichever is the most convenient.

It's still "under development" and all present features work fine, and pretty well, IMHO.

Feedback if greatly welcome, as are bug reports. Bug reports and enhacement requests can be posted on github.

Just click here to install it! :)

Also, be sure to update the image cache on your first run, and be sure to do it over wifi. This'll make save huge amounts of times in searches, since category icons don't need to be downloaded on-demand. (They're cached anyway when downloaded on-demand, but you don't want to be waiting for images to download while searching for nearby venues).

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4...2022904054.png

For those intereseted, the source is available here. I wouldn't recomend it as a learning example for anyone, there's some pretty bad code there (mixed with not-so-bad-code). I'll rewrite the ugly bits eventually, but I care more about feature I need/want for now.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

was waiting for this...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

Hope you enjoy this.
Feel free to leave any bugs/suggestions/requests/etc, I'm actively working on this. :)

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not working :( 5sec black screen loading then fall down

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Could you run, from a terminal
and send me the output? If you dont know how to copy it, press ctrl+shift+p to take a screenshot (this works on any maemo app, by the way).

Thanks!

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Nokia-N900:~# python /opt/ubersquare/ubersquare_launch.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ubersquare/ubersquare_launch.py", line 2, in <module>
from ubersquare import gui
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ubersquare/gui.py", line 13, in <module>
from foursquare import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ubersquare/foursquare.py", line 12, in <module>
from xdg import BaseDirectory
ImportError: No module named xdg

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I get exactly the same error message in xterminal... hope there is a solution?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

i just tried install xdg and now it's WORKING!

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I had forgotten to list some dependencies.
Please, try updating, it've just finished uploading a fixed package.

Cheers!

[EDIT]
Yes, that was the issue. "python-xdg" and another package are now listed as dependencies. It takes a while to re-build the package, but upgrading to the latest version will auto-install them for you.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

thanks you! great app!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

just little thing... can you add some nice icon ? :) thx

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I've added a foursquare icon for now (https://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws....icon-36x36.png), if someone volunteers to make a better one, I might use it. :)

I'll upload the latest development release as soon as I finish polishing some things that are still not working regarding tips, the icon will be included there.

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@ hobarrera
10x for your work !!! How to donate you some money ??? PayPal ???

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

just installed new version and starts failing again

python /opt/ubersquare/ubersquare_launch.py
running devel engine!
Reading code/acces_token
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ubersquare/ubersquare_launch.py", line 2, in <module>
from ubersquare import gui
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ubersquare/gui.py", line 24, in <module>
from venue_widgets import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ubersquare/venue_widgets.py", line 21, in <module>
from gui import WaitingDialog
ImportError: cannot import name WaitingDialog

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now when i click leaderboard the application is exiting...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

Ooops, yes, again, a packaging error. I've just pushed a newer version into the repos, it'll be available in about 20 minutes.
I really need a clean N900 to make sure I always package everything, etc. :$

I think you're probably running a version a bit old (this is -devel, so there's upgrades a couple of times a week).
Random crashes when opening venue lists/leaderboards have been fixed.

I hadn't really given any thought to this, here's a paypal donation link (I'll investigate on some other alternatives when I have more free time).

https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/...onateCC_LG.gif

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bug
- info next to photo - not updating

suggestion
- visited - short by date
- last check next to photo
- when i check in - choose where to post it
- friends

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It actually updates when you click "add venue" an restart the app. (Don't ask why: it's a secondary effect). I've been meaning to have it update when you click on the profile picture, but haven't gotten around to it. (auto-updating can be a bad idea for those of us without 3G).

Friends is next on my to-do list, they'll be accesible through the leaderboard. Hopefully, sometime this week.

Last checkin next to photo sounds like a cool idea, I'll add that to my todo list.

Choosing where to post is also on my to-do list. Even I find it annoying not being able to change this.

Sorting venues wil probably be a bit of work, so I'll try and get around to this after I've gotten everything else polished. Since you can search anyway, I don't see it as being really important.

Thanks for the feedback, cheers!

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Wow, that's unbelievable. Gonna install & try it today, yet another wonderful app for Maemo :)

Keep up good work! :)

BUG REPORT:
1. Click on Search/Explore
2. Input any text in Russian language into the search field
3. Click on Search
4. Nothing happens

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Bug: when i click on leaderboard - nothing happens

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Version 0.3.6 is out. I've edited my inital post accordingly!

Hi!

Can you try with the latest version (0.3.6) - I've just pushed it to extras-devel.
I've tried this with spanish characters and it the bugs seems to be gone, but I'd appreciate if you can confirm the same for russian characters.

Cheers!

Can you confirm if this still happens with the latest version?
If it does, please, follow the instructions on post #5 and send me any output you might see.

Thanks!

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Hi, leaderboard now working fine - i reinstalled app and wiped out all caches of app

Wishlist : friends activity list - like on foursqure.com

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Great!

I'll add this to my list! :)

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and please put comments to activity list (now if i want comment friend checkin i must open to website and its really slow :( )

idea:
when I will search the nearest checkin, there could be the distance?

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How to post check-in's to "Twitter" & "Facebook" ?:confused:

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My bad, I hardcoded this from day 0, and forgot about this. I'll work on a screen to configure facebook/twitter publishing this weeked.

Note: You'll be able to configure where you want to publish your checkins/etc, but you'll have to manually link you accounts from the website first.

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what is the new update?

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A very minor update:

* Stats are properly updated when touching the profile pic/stats
* Minor UI fixes in venues screen
* Distance to venues (in venue lists) is show (if available

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

can you change the comment "via UberSquare" to "via UberSquare for N900" when we check in? thanks!

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Not a bad idea actually. It's a bit more consistent with other smartphone apps.
I've also changed the link to this thread, rather than an empty website. :)

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Another question is that possible add a new place from the map, instead of giving lat and long, because if its taking cell tower as reference it won't be accurate. Is that complicated?

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Actually, it sort of is - that's mainly why I made the configurable location. To be honest, I fix the positions from my PC on my free time! :P

I'll get to that eventually, but it's a bit harder than the rest of the application (it's just something I've never done before really), and I started collage around a month ago, so my free time is considerably less.

It'll come... eventually.

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Actually me also do the same, fix the positions from PC :-) Take your time, thanks for your nice work & support :)

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I'm waiting here for the next update.
Thanks !

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Latest release (less than a minute ago) has a (poorly designed) settings screen that allow you to configure this. :)

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the button "Visited" is not working for me, before it was working fine. i think its since the update before this latest update. Secondly in settings now there is option for post to twitter & facebook, its just a checkbox to select or deselect. So where to enter login details for twitter & facebook?

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Try deleting the cache, it might have gotten corrupt. It the following file:
/home/user/.cache/ubersquare/cache.sqlite

You need to configure the accounts from the website; the foursquare API offers no way for applications to configure this.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

Deleting the cached worked!

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its not posting to facebook / twitter. I have already configured in foursquare and when i use zaploc its getting updated, but not via ubersquare, pls chk.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UberSquare: A foursquare client
 

Oops! Yup, I broke it just before I uploaded this. Who would have guessed an extra space broke it? :P

It've uploaded a fix now, sorry about that. :) You'll need to re-configure it (you'll notice both options are unchecked in settings).