Birdsong for Windows Phone version 1.7 submitted and on the way

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What? "Birdsong is yet alive" you say? It seems the team at Red Badger accept been busy pumping life into the sometime daughter, who has been fallow since she was updated to Mango. We final spoke of Birdsong, the and then-pop Windows Phone Twitter client, when the squad appear that intern Joe Stanton would be tasked with bringing the app dorsum upward to speed with the competition. And then what's new in upcoming 1.seven?

The team has introduced a new trends feature, which is now attainable from the main app bar and provides convenient admission to Twitter trending data for users. The characteristic calculates your location and displays nearest trending topics with the option to view what's trending in a specific urban center, nationwide, or on a global scale.

Search functionality has been revamped and is now more intuitive with the primary search view retrieving saved searches automatically. Upon executing a search via Birdsong, the app at present searches both tweets and accounts simultaneously. The app makes use of the Twitter API for searching, and so whatever saved searches created / manipulated on the app will be reflected on the website and other apps that make use of the same functionality.

Also as a search revamp and trending topics, Birdsong now supports both photos tweeted using Twitter's in-house hosting service and gzip. Previously, any paradigm hosted with Twitter would show it equally a link which could not be selected, just now all photos are loaded correctly depending on user settings. For gzip support, this solves the login issue many feel when attempting to connect their Twitter account to the app on first launch.

There are two bug fixes in ane.7, the beginning being the in a higher place implemented gzip back up. Twitter altered their authentication API to always return a gzip response, which resulted in Birdsong not being able to process authenticated responses. The second bug set is for errors with user profiles where the app was making unauthenticated requests, causing the user to hit brick walls with limits being applied by the social network.

Unfortunately, we couldn't encounter any mention of the live tile / push service functionality in the change log. Many have been reporting issues with manipulating the settings for said features in Birdsong, where the app would throw a failure bulletin when one attempted to simply enable the service. Nosotros hope these known issues will be fixed in a future update, which wont have equally long to publish.

Source: Red Annoy; Thanks, Kyle, for the tip!

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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