Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook 1.6

Written by Jerome Carty on January 4, 2012 in Updates - 15 Comments

We’re back with an update to Blaq that brings mainly bug fixes and some noteworthy additions. This update should now be available in BlackBerry App World. If you don’t see it, don’t fret. It’ll be available within the next 24 hours. The biggest bug fix is to the stability of real-time streaming. You should notice that it now works more reliably. Let us know if you have any trouble at all.

So, what’s new?

Application

Read saved searches - You asked for it and it’s here!

Options

Services

Bit.ly support (Pro coming soon)
Img.ly support
Yfrog support
Twitter photo support
Klout score on tweet card (configurable)

Main View

View your own profile

Tweets

Maximized WebView notifications – Native notifications prompt even when you’re viewing websites within Blaq.

Bug Fixes

Cannot insert mention between text when composing a tweet
Mentions and DMs are not sorted
Direct message notifications would not show
Trending topics don’t load
Some tweet links were untappable or broken
More stable real-time streaming
Tweet Card some times does not display (potential)
Search results scroll performance improved
When an image upload fails, tweet is still sent
Minor internal issues

What do you think we should add next? Sound off in the comments below.

About the author

Jerome Carty is lead developer at Kisai Labs. You can find him on @JCarty on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/wbbady BingWong

good
http://twitter.com/RafaelMatosM RafaMatos

Release the bb mobile version already……
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http://about.me/robblaich Robbie

Did you fix it so if I go from horizontal to portrait (or vice versa) viewing it won’t look all screwy? That was one bug that’s started to drive me away. I like to view in landscape, but type in portrait.
- http://www.kisailabs.com/ Jerome Carty
  
  Portrait is being reworked so it was disabled for the time being.
http://ekkes-corner.org ekke

thanks for great work

my wishes:
* switch in preferences if new tweets should auto-scroll
* visible decoration to know which tweets are new (I told you about Nambu where read tweets have a slight lighter background)

over all: Blaq is for me the best twitter client on PlayBook
changed font to Verdana 20 and my playbook stands like a twitter-wall in front of my iMac 27
- http://www.kisailabs.com/ Jerome Carty
  
  Thanks for your support. Those are all on the list!
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Mario

Thank you, i am very happy that the realtime stream now works properly.
Einsatz24

Most times blaq fails to load or display my timeline. This is kinda random and highly annoying. :/
- http://www.kisailabs.com/ Jerome Carty
  
  Working on improvements to loading times. Thanks!
Mark Jacobs

I’m having problems with the auto-update feature even with the new 1.6 update. It sometimes shows as active, but then disables itself and there’s nothing I can do to reenable it.
- http://www.kisailabs.com/ Jerome Carty
  
  Fixes are in the works for the refresh button which seems to have an error. Normally, a refresh would reconnect you, if disconnected. Also, improvements to the speed of initial tweets will be improved.