Now the dust has settled around ICS, I thought I’d write a little something on upcoming improvements to AndChat.
Firstly, there is a lot of work being done to make AndChat work great on ICS. The main improvement being worked on is the userlist handling, which will be similar to how it works on Honeycomb and slight changes to the UI. The challenging part with the userlist is the small screen real estate and nick selection and I’m working hard to find a nice way to get it to work.
Eric Schmidt’s take on privacy on the net is the last straw for me. Bing.com is now my search engine and home page.
AndChat, previously AndroidIRC, has now been published to the Android Market (fashionably late of course). You can get all the details on the new site, AndChat.net, or just search for pname:net.andchat in the Market app.
Note to users of AndroidIRC, you can install the new app and transfer your settings/server profiles over if you have root.. If you do, then see root.txt.
Edit: By request, it has been made available to download from the site. Visit the download page to get it.
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It rocks! Srsly.
Ever been busy with something and someone, who you can call back later, rings you, interrupting what you’re doing? Yeah, me too.
So I wrote a widget so you can easily enable text to speech notifications telling you the name of the person calling or texting you.
Inspired by this project on xda devs, I decided to write an app from scratch since that app never worked for me and you couldn’t easily enable or disable it.
The app is open source and is available at Google Code Hosting.
Screenshots:
So I was away for 1.5 months on holiday. Back now. Need to get a damn job.
And a new website design for it as well! The old one was hand coded over SSH and looked very ugly, the new design is a bit more organized.
The new client has support for multiple servers, as well as things missing in the single server client, timestamps, detection of network connectivity change (so it disconnects quicker without lag), etc. It’s still a work in progress, so feel free to give feedback and ideas.
I’ve been doing some work on getting AndroidIRC to support multiple servers and have made good progress. It’s not fully usable at the moment but I decided to put some screenshots up of the work in progress.
The chatwindow GUI hasn’t been fully implemented yet, I’ll put up a mockup that was done for me showing what I eventually want it to look like a bit later.
As usual, feedback is appreciated.
On a side note, I’m well into my exam period, wish me luck 
