12
May
Twitter for Android App gets more features
Twitter has released new update for its Android app that brings oodles of new features. New Twitter for Android App that includes tabbed search results view, SSL for network request, and number of other features. The new update is available for smartphones running Android 2.1 or higher would be able to use this update. Download the new update from Android Market or visit http://market.android.com.
With every update, Twitter for Android App is getting better and bringing in more features which ideally should ve been there by second update.
List of new features:
- Add and remove saved searches from universal search suggestions
- SSL used for network requests
- Font size setting
- Tapping on a map in detail view searches nearby Tweets
- Launch links directly from a message
- Ability to delete messages
- Added Tweet count to user profile
- Improved avatar loading
- Improved the way data is cleared to conserve more space
- Fixed a bug where music skips when refreshing, etc.
- Many other improvements and bug fixes
Security is being taken care of over here as Twitter had promised when the HTTPS protocol was implemented for the web service. With the Twitter for Android, all the network requests to open a links or anything else are taking care through the SSL protocols.