Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Fac3b00k...that's allowed, right?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

w00t i want to help u...send me ur mail in private

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Why not just PM him?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

how hard would it be to impliment the inbox/mailing API ?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Not hard, I just haven't done it yet, as I want to polish what's there so I can release a first version. :)

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Well, second post, deleted my first one :)

I also tried to create a facebook client some time ago. But the problem I had was to decide which technology I should use:
- Plain Qt?
- Qml?
- Dui (Harmattan UI Framework)?
- uiemo (UI Extensions for Mobile)?

Did you decide for one way? So if you also can't decide which one to use, the best way would be (like in every better project): Separate the gui from the "core". If the core is stable, usable and contains models and everything scriptable and QObject'ed, the gui could be done by someone who has knowledge of ui design and bling bling (I don't have, my interfaces are boring ;) )
In my opinion doing the gui with Qml is less work than with plain Qt.

Looking forward to see your results. If you need any help, I may help you out.

Edit: I've already played around with a simple friends list using Qml (I think it should compile with the 4.7 technology preview). It's commited next to your QFacebookConnect clone (http://gitorious.org/~gri/qfacebookc...er/facebookqml). Sorry for not having any screenshots, the code is not much and boring ...

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Right. I've just finished some new code for the list (so it's not so unbearably slow) and it's almost tolerable now. I've a few more tricks to play and then I'm pretty much ready for testing.

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Maebook sounds good

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Shouldn't it be called "Meebook"

/sarcasm (or am i?? ;) )

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Hah! Fantastic to run into you here, I saw your work, and am also using QFacebookConnect I'm using (slightly patched atm, I really need to submit MRs although I am not certain the original author is still interested).

I am not using QML since it's not really easy to use regular UI elements, which is something I want to do. I also don't want to rely on Qt 4.7+ - at least not at this point.

I'm not using DUI since, to be frank, it seems like a case of NIH syndrome and I'm also not particularly a fan of the code. uiemo doesn't seem quite so bad, but I still don't see what is wrong with plain Qt, so that's what I'm using (if it works for every other platform in the world, why do we need another UI tookit just for mobile? I thought Hildon taught enough lessons there - but this is a topic for another thread.)

I look forward to getting help/contributions from everyone going forward - but I'm not quite ready *yet*. Still have a few annoying issues which I need to get solved before I'm ready to open this to wider testing (and more bug reports :P)

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

first of all. thanks that was one of the thinks i was missing on my N900.
anyway you said that you want to let your app seamlessly integrate into the N900 environment, that is a good idea. applying the FB colour scheme to your app would also be a good idea... but what ever you do, please do not choose other colours.
your idea not to implement the FB chat is something that i would clearly support. but maybe you could implement a link to the right apps on the N900 of each user. Pidgin and the normal chat app would be two programs to start with. maybe it could be user selectable in the options tab of your app, which of those apps should be started.

and my last point for now... if i could choose something that would be the most important function, it would be the "comment on other users status" and naturally also on the comments they did on your own status.

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

About the name, no to be a downer but please not names with the "Mae" prefix or suffix. How about something more meaningful and descriptive - like "Facebook Mobile" or "Facebook Ultimate" or maybe "Maemo Facebook".

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

i don't think he can use the word "facebook" without violating any copyrights

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

ok how's 900book then? or 900FB ?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

considering he is using plain QT so in theory it will be a cross platform app, i think its best if its called something what is not OS or hardware related.
something like QBook or CuteConnect

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Why does this post remind me of KDE's absurd naming convention?

kBook! (jk again ;) )

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

http://nextmobileweb.com/fbook/android

could that help?
It's a facebook app for android but not official

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS! finally a facebook application

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

how about "MaFaceBook" ? .. you know like .. "yo check out ma facebook yo .. " ..

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

name it bookface or bacefook?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

This sounds offensive, doesn't it? :)

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Facebooze :D

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Face9ooK!!!!!

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Face900k...!

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

.....how about MaeFace..?!

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

. Yes please.

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

That's super Cool I think so many colleges will waiting for this App, good job!!!! Congrats

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Is it possible for it to say "posted via N900" like it does on the iphone etc?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

"FB Touch"

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

how is FaeBook ?

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Keep the name meaningful enough such that you do not need to read the description before having a clue about what it does.

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

It interfaces to FB through an application called 'NokiaN900', so, it sort of does, yes. :)

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

W00t, another app I recently saw and liked the interface was the TweetDeck app on iPod touch again. Its different from the Facebok app on iPhone but again very nicely done. Essentially it allows to interface with Facebook or Twitter (hence TweetDeck).

If you want some screenshots of these to get an idea of the functionality and the UI design just let me know - I will take some screenshots from my wife's iPod touch. Again not to just blindly copy - but get ideas only.

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

how about no more suggestions untill he is ready.

:/

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Good news.

I've just discovered and worked around one of the big items that was making me hesitant to release this (poor performance when scrolling), so I think I'll be starting limited testing soon.

Instructions to follow. :)

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Cool! keep up the good work dude

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

thanks......

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

The name (thanks to some discussions on #maemo last night) is FaceBrick.

I spent some time getting it running on MohammadAG's device, so he's the third person after me to have used it so far.

Hopefully we'll have it packaged and installed fairly soon :)

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

sure mohammad will help you he's really good with this sort of stuff i know him from nokia users you have a good tester on board there mate

good work hope to see it packaged soon

nice one mate

Re: My Facebook client for the n900
 

Hey Woot
Another great N900 app with a beautiful UI is TweeGo.

I would def say check this out if you want some inspiration. :-)