Piepmatz
Say hello to Piepmatz, a Twitter client for Sailfish OS!
Piepmatz supports all the features of Twitter that you need to stay up-to-date. Your personal timeline, notifications, media etc. - coming with a lot of eye-candy!
- Personal Twitter Timeline in chronological order
- Notifications for new followers, retweets and mentions
- Search (for tweets and users)
- Profile Pages
- Complete display of extended tweets
- Embedded tweets
- Multi-picture support, incl. pinch-to-zoom
- Embedded and fullscreen video/animated GIF playback
- Download media option
- Link preview powered by Open Graph (e.g. for Instagram, Facebook, news sites etc.)
- Direct messages (up to 10.000 characters)
- Details view for tweet
- Limited thread support
- @-mentioning support in new tweets
- Geocode your tweets
- Show trending topics in your area
- Twitter lists support
- Multiple accounts support
On a device with a physical keyboard you have the following shortcuts:
- Generic
- Up/down: scroll
- Page up/down: scroll faster
- t/b: Scroll to top / bottom
- Left/Esc: Back
- Only on main screen:
- 1-6: Switch tabs (timeline, notifications, search etc.)
- n: New tweet
- r: Refresh
- s: Settings
- a: About
- On tweet details view:
- Return/Enter: Display thread
Open Source and Contribution
Feedback about Piepmatz is always appreciated (good, bad, improvement/feature ideas etc.).
You can contribute with a translation, a new feature or even a bugfix. The sources are on GitHub at https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-piepmatz. Please acknowledge the GNU GPLv3 before contributing/forking. Thanks to all new and especially to the existing contributors!
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Changelog:
1.9
- Initial support for Emoji 13.1 (some issues though) - e.g. face in clouds, face with spiral eyes, bearded people etc.
- Removed Twitter configuration retrieval (API deprecated, caused error message at startup)
- Removed obsolete openssl/libcrypto dependency
- Updated translations for Chinese and Polish (thanks to dashinfantry and atlochowski)
1.8.1
- A glimmer of hope for threads without developer mode (acting as search engine bot - they still seem to get an HTML view for tweets)
- That also brings back Open Graph previews for tweets :)
- Updated translations for Chinese and Polish (thanks to dashinfantry and atlochowski)
1.8
- Migrated Twitter thread support to developer mode, using rate-limited Twitter API v2, users need own Bearer token from the Twitter Developer Portal to make it work
- Fix escaped ampersand in URLs, removed QML bug workaround as no longer reproducible, thanks to fuchsmich for reporting that!
1.7.1
- Fix crash in case of unsupported HTML charset. Kudos to Lukáš Karas!
1.7
- Support for Emoji 13.0 - e.g. Dodo, pinched fingers, fondue and much more (hey, it's World Emoji Day today!)
- Changed Twitter ToS and privacy policy links in about screen - API was broken
- Changed profile button icon
1.6.1
- Fix tweet thread support (let's see how long it will last ;))
- Force white play button for videos - needed in light ambiences
1.6
- Emoji search during tweet creation. Use :<keyword> to search for emojis to use them in your tweet.
- Add user handle in tweet creation screen
- Display user names in tweets more elegantly
- Fix: Elide button texts when too long (e.g. timeline, notifications etc.)
1.5.1
- Fix: Ignore deleted user in direct messages
- Fix: Avoid complete open URL takeover on some devices
- Updated translations for Chinese and Polish (thanks to dashinfantry and atlochowski)
1.5
- Open with-Piepmatz: Open Piepmatz directly from your events view or any other app which references Twitter content
- Secret Identity (check out the settings page for details about this secret feature ;))
- Show detailed information about deleted & blocked tweets (mainly for retweets with comments)
- Fix for broken charsets in link previews (once again :/)
- Fix for broken thread display (still no official API, let's see how long it will work)
- Fix ?xxx file name suffixes for file downloads
1.4.1
- Updated translations (Hungarian, Chinese, Polish)
1.4
- Support for Emoji 12.0 (e.g. yawning face, orangutan, sloth, skunk, otter...)
- Dedicated support for direct tweet to other users (thanks to Thaodan for the work)
- New setting to adjust font size (for those who want the standard SFOS large font size...)
- New link preview setting: Always load (as previously), only on WiFi connection, never load (in case you want to save data traffic)
- Images are no longer reloaded on orientation change (will save data traffic, might consume a little more RAM on your device)
- Wagnis is removed
1.3
- Support for Emoji 11.0 (finally a superhero/villain emoji ;) )
- Added Czech translation (thanks to Jiri Hubacek)
- Updated Italian translation (thanks to Alessandro Pra')
- Code quality improvements (thanks to Rolf Eike Beer)
1.2.2
- Keyboard shortcuts for Gemini PDA, TOHKBD...
- Improved translations for Finnish, Japanese and French
1.2.1
- Search results: Filter duplicate tweets (caused by retweets)
- Added previously incomplete translations
1.2
- Support for image descriptions (accessibility, especially for blind people)
- Get images also from Downloads directory & from Android Pictures and Download directories
- Adjustments to tweet thread handling (other user agent) for hopefully better future compatibility
1.1
- Support for saved searches
- Better landscape support
- Swipe to switch categories (e.g. from timeline to notifications)
- Option to disable loading animations
- Tap on download successful notification launches Gallery app
- Possibility to remove account
1.0
- Download media
- Fullscreen videos
- Delete your own tweets
- Notifications for retweets and new followers
- Lists support
- Proper linebreak handling in tweets
- Alternative image style (thanks to ferlanero)
- Multiple accounts support (see settings)
- Original Twitter Emojis (can be disabled)
- Thread support (limited/workaround as there is no API, but works quite well)
- Payment framework integration
Comments
WerkWolf
Sat, 2018/05/19 - 00:17
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These changes are known since about a year or so. Therefore, Piepmatz was designed to work without adjustments even after Twitter deprecated these API endpoints.
So, Piepmatz handles it already now and will work also after August 2018.
vision
Sun, 2018/05/20 - 14:07
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Oh....looks like I was stumpling upon an outdated newsfeed ;). Android resp. Google is not my friend and will never be my friend.... So I just thought it will be another reason to keep my bad opinion about this company resp. this OS. Thanks for clarification.
carepack
Wed, 2018/05/16 - 10:28
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Yes, thx. A complete reinstall did the trick. Thx
carepack
Tue, 2018/05/15 - 16:19
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Thx werkwolf. I'll give it a try. Could you give the home.buttom a bit of love :-)? Press home once should bring you to the top (implemented). But if you hit home again on top it should start refreshing the timelime. More comfort to use. Thx for your work (paid app support, piepmatz, wunderfitz).
carepack
Mon, 2018/05/14 - 14:29
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Thx for the update. But since upgrading reapplying the alternative theme is working but not for the app icon in app drawer. it won't get changed. Piepmatz issue?
ferlanero
Tue, 2018/05/15 - 16:27
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You only need to reinstall my Piepfish icon theme from Openrepos: https://openrepos.net/content/ferlanero/piepfish-complete-image-mod-piepmatz
WerkWolf
Mon, 2018/05/14 - 23:30
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For the app icon, you need a patch as it's not allowed to change the app icon from the app itself. Probably, you only need to reinstall the theme patch from Ferlanero.
carepack
Fri, 2018/05/04 - 13:25
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Hi,
werkwolf. A possibility to refresh threads instead going back to timeline and reenter the tweet / thread would be very nice and useful. Atm I have to go back and back to the thread to see new comments. Thx for this feature rich client!
WerkWolf
Sun, 2018/05/13 - 23:59
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Thanks! I'll put it to the list for future updates.
skyjumper
Fri, 2018/04/20 - 02:07
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Hi,
I have PiepMatz v0.5. Is this version an upgrade from that which now requires payment? A little confused...
WerkWolf
Fri, 2018/04/20 - 11:26
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That's correct. It's a major update (see the changelog above) and requires a contribution after a 14 days trial period. It's now published by the company WerkWolf because it's complicated for an individual to do business in various countries and for some other legal reasons. Development is still done on https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-piepmatz
A contribution can be done by payment, translation to a new language or by code contribution. Translators and code contributors get a key via e-mail directly from us, those who paid get the key from digistore24. You can choose between 4 payment options, all unlock the whole app. It's up to you to decide which one suits you best and how much you value the work on the app and how much you like the result. :)
vision
Thu, 2018/04/19 - 21:30
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Thanks for this great app ;). I have it installed almost from the beginning. But as said already above:
"Saved search" is missing and this prevents to use it as daily Twitter app. As soon as "Saved search" is implemented I will donate XL ;).
Greetings from SAP consultant to SAP consultant ;)
WerkWolf
Thu, 2018/04/19 - 21:49
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Well, the feature hasn't made it into 1.0, but it will most certainly be part of the next one. Just follow issue https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-piepmatz/issues/12 to check when it's done. Very interesting that this one is so important... ;)
vision
Mon, 2018/05/14 - 16:05
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Great ;) Thanks for the update and providing "Saved Search" support.
As promised in my previous comment I have donated XL now ;)
It is the best and most professional designed Sailfish app so far.
molan
Tue, 2018/04/17 - 12:43
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Fantastic Twitter client & a showcase Sfos app! Thank you :)
WerkWolf
Thu, 2018/04/19 - 21:42
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You're welcome!
hagiz
Tue, 2018/04/17 - 02:16
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This app is so good I bought it twice.
WerkWolf
Thu, 2018/04/19 - 21:42
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Thank you very much!
Bocephus
Mon, 2018/04/16 - 17:58
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I would support an app like this if I actually had a Twitter account. But since I've never had one and never intend to get one, well... Bye.
gaelic
Mon, 2018/04/16 - 12:48
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Wonderful, just bought it.
WerkWolf
Mon, 2018/04/16 - 22:49
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Thank you!
explit
Mon, 2018/04/16 - 09:47
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Thank you Sebastian, for such good app.
Such apps shows, how SailfishOS Apps should be...
MartiMasa
Mon, 2018/04/16 - 00:01
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I would think Piepmatz is a 'killer app' if saved search of my most favorite Twitter places are shown i.e. ”SailfishOS” or ”JollaHQ”. Have my financial support if this feature is included in future releases!
WerkWolf
Mon, 2018/04/16 - 23:01
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Let's see what can be done. ;)
Caballlero
Sun, 2018/04/15 - 20:36
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So nice Piepmatz-black-serie. Thx
objectifnul
Sun, 2018/04/15 - 14:33
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Still no local instance thread. Did I miss something?
WerkWolf
Sun, 2018/04/15 - 14:36
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What exactly do you mean with "local instance thread"?
objectifnul
Sun, 2018/04/15 - 14:56
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The "Local timeline" (only toots from the same instance contributors)
WerkWolf
Sun, 2018/04/15 - 15:01
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This is only for Twitter, not for Mastodon. Probably, you mean Tooter for Sailfish OS. This one is done by another author.
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