[Announce] FaceBrick: Facebook client for Maemo with a rich UI

[w00t]

UPDATE - v0.6 release, desktop widget finally here! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=677 (Tuesday 12th October)
UPDATE - v0.3 release, application posts added! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=362 (Saturday 17th April)
UPDATE - v0.2.3 release, bugfix only! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=277 (Monday 12th April)
UPDATE - v0.2.2 release, adds ability to like/unlike posts! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=216 (Saturday 10th April)
UPDATE - v0.2 release, adds ability to post/read comments! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=186 (Friday 9th April)
UPDATE - v0.1.1 - bugfix only! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=149 (Thursday 8th April)
UPDATE - first release (v0.1)! See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=81 (Wednesday 7th April)




I started this on Saturday, and have spent pretty much all of today getting it to run on the n900 (SDK issues, PR1.2 vs 1.1.1, a Qt/compiler bug, git problems .. I've been through all sorts of hell :P) - but as an early taster, I'd like to present a quick screenshot of my Facebook client for the N900.

I'm probably going to move "check for new posts" to the titlebar menu, for starters. I also intend to eventually try to produce a desktop widget that isn't so horribly useless as the Nokia one (if I click on a newsfeed story, a browser window opens up and takes me to it)

Feedback of all sorts welcome! (This is the first time I've run it on the device, so please be gentle. )

Oh, and if there's any features from Facebook you'd like to see on your N900, please let me know.

[Ronaldo]

looks good! an app would be great, like the n97/iphone one

[w00t]

Originally Posted by Ronaldo

looks good! an app would be great, like the n97/iphone one

I've not used either, but yeah, I'm sick of using Facebook in the browser, so I want a seperate 'nice' application that integrates with the nice phone I have, haha.

[joshua.maverick]

If you need anything designed holler at me, I'd be more than happy to help out!

An idea:
Some sort of integration into Conversations, so if I click an online user it opens up Conversations for Facebook Chat.

Thanks

[saxen]

great work dude! finally the first facebook client for n900, i really need it!

it would be great if offers all facebook features, like photo, link, comments, like or unlike command, ect....

btw great work again, waiting for first release, i'd like to test it

[w00t]

Originally Posted by joshua.maverick

If you need anything designed holler at me, I'd be more than happy to help out!

An idea:
Some sort of integration into Conversations, so if I click an online user it opens up Conversations for Facebook Chat.

Thanks

Hmm.

FB now have XMPP (or Jabber or whatever you want to call it), so you can sign in to FB chat easily enough... I might be able to hook in with Conversations somehow so that you can talk to them, yes. I'll try keep it in mind

[w00t]

Originally Posted by saxen

great work dude! finally the first facebook client for n900, i really need it!

it would be great if offers all facebook features, like photo, link, comments, like or unlike command, ect....

btw great work again, waiting for first release, i'd like to test it

I doubt it'll be available for a while yet, definitely not before PR1.2.

1) I need a few new bits and pieces it offers (and hacking them into my non-PR1.2 phone was hell, it'd be impossible to package)
2) I want to use even more of them (like automatic rotation)
3) I want to polish things up and get it a bit more presentable first.. it's a good start atm, but it's a bit of an ugly wart

Once that's done, though, my plan is to start working on other features though, yeah.

[brik]

Maybe a way to view comments, liking and comment on posts, I'd prefer it if I didn't have to go to the website at all

[Ronaldo]

have a look at this

http://m.facebook.com/home.php

this is what n97 version is kinda like but not as good

[MohammadAG]

Screenie of the N97/5800 facebook widget

If you have a Forum Nokia account you can take a peak in the RDA section (it's like VNC'ing, you control a real device), if not, make an account

Liking the app a lot, not sure if the API allows (most probably kept as an iPhone exclusive feature) but push would be useful here, instead of manually checking/checking at intervals, but I'm not expecting that since it's most prolly closed.

If you want pre-alpha testers I'm here