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Seesmic for Android has received an update today which bumps the app to version 1.5. The social networking client has added beta support for Salesforce's Chatter service, which you can now use from Seesmic alongside Twitter and Google Buzz. The Salesforce Chatter integration lets you read your Chatter feed, comment, view groups, profiles (and you can call, email or see a person's address with one tap), post updates with attachments, and cross-post to and from Twitter and Google Buzz.Also making its debut in version 1.5 is an improved UI -- which certainly makes the app look prettier, even if it does sacrifice a few vertical pixels compared to previous versions. The reload, compose, and search buttons are now always visible and not hidden away in the Menu, letting you easily take an action in the app with one tap.
The Composer has been revamped and features auto-complete support (which searches through both usernames and actual names, and kicks in once you write a letter after "@") and attachment management of photos and videos.
You can now change your Twitter avatar from within Seesmic for Android, and view full conversations once hitting the "in reply to" link in a tweet -- previously you had to hit "in reply to" for each tweet in a conversation. This will come in very handy for those who use Twitter for more than broadcasting their egos and also happen to use Seesmic for Android as their preferred client. Performance improvements have also made it into Seesmic 1.5, and on my slightly underpowered Android 2.1 device these are easily noticeable, especially in start-up and load/refresh times.
Despite all the nice feature additions, there's still no way to add people to (or remove them from) lists, and no way to report a tweet or a Twitter user as spam. These, however, are the only two shortcomings I can think of for this app, which is my mobile Twitter client of choice -- and therefore I really do recommend you at least try it, after all it is free.
Seesmic 1.5 for Android is now available in the Android Market.
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Subscribe to commentsPauloDec 6th 2010 7:17PM
Seesmic for Android is great, and this update has made it even better. I also settled on this Twitter client on my Android, after trying out a lot of others. This update has cured most of the niggling issues I had with it, especially making the compose, refresh and search/trending accessible with one touch now. The auto-complete, auto-capitalization and conversation view are also very welcome.
My only real issue is that notifications seem to be slow in actually notifying, but I seemed to have that problem with a couple others too so maybe it's an Android thing.
I would like to ability to modify the color schemes (such as a dark theme) in the next update. And also support for Facebook too, as I don't use Buzz or Chatter. But that's just nit-picking. This is a great Twitter client for Android.
Gary!Dec 6th 2010 11:06PM
It's nice and all, but I still get "Authentication Failed" every time I try to add my Buzz account.
@davey_ladDec 7th 2010 3:32AM
Seesmic was the first twitter client I settled with (back in the day :|) but it was soon replaced by Touituer... which up until recently was the best Andriod twitter client around (IMO). Touituer has increasly become buggy, slow and generally clunky over the last couple of months so I thought I'd give seemic another shot. So far I'm impressed.. although i'm not a big fan of the colour scheme it's improved a lot in terms of useability and speed.
I'll stick with it for now... till something better comes along