Tweeter by Aran Rhee at SWX: SWF Data Format

Tweeter by Aran Rhee is a twitter widget designed for the Chumby.

I was asked by Chumby to develop a improved Twitter widget for the Chumby Flash Lite 3 device. I had originally used the Twitter Flash API, but there were some significant issues with authentication headers not being passed correctly using the official methods (bad or cached results being returned). I found the SWX Twitter API, and was able to replace all the API calls and result handlers without changing my UI or main classes in ~ 1 hour. None of the authentication issues were present since the SWX gateway makes the actual calls. To be able to swap out the back end of an application this easily (and on Flash Lite no less) was absolutely fabulous.

Depending on whether the Chumby user authenticates or not, they will either be shown the public timeline or their friends timeline. If the user clicks on any of the individual tweets, the UI will then show that users individual timeline.

The UI is very simple as it is designed to run on the Chumby which has a mobile type processor (slow) and no rollover states etc (being a touch screen device).

Birds are used as a visual device since Twitter statuses are sometimes called “tweets”.

View Tweeter online.

SWX: SWF Data Format

Tweeter by Aran Rhee

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