A public beta of TweetDeck Beta for Android will be rolling out this week. For those of you who attended Google I/O and made your way over to the TweetDeck booth, then you already have an idea of what to expect. TweetDeck is a social integration client that brings Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace to your Desktop and, similar to other Twitter applications, TweetDeck implements the Twitter API allowing the user to send, receive and view profiles, all within the program.
The official press release is below.
To get straight to the point, we’re nearing completion of Android TweetDeck and we’ve really been pushing the limits of what Android can do. Hence we will be opening up a public beta testing period this week for some serious device testing. But before all that happens I wanted to briefly explain what Android TweetDeck means to us because it’s more than just TweetDeck on Android.
First off, we’ve built Android TweetDeck from the ground up to be true multi-stream, laser focused on showing you all your friends’ cross-service activity in one app. Multi-column is still the order of the day but now columns are blended based on the type of activity rather than the service. And all this whilst retaining the most powerful functionality from each included service.
We’ve spent an inordinate amount of time making the app silky smooth from the column scrolling to the custom views – so much so that one of Google’s Android Developer Advocates recently described it as “a thing of beauty”. So look out for the beta test later this week and please do get involved.
Interestingly Android TweetDeck also represents the future of our iPhone and iPad applications. We’ll have a few bug fix releases shortly (awaiting approval in the app store) but in the background we are working on porting Android to iPhone in as quick a time as possible. Finally, it won’t be long before most of the new concepts in Android TweetDeck make it to the desktop and web – we’re also working on this now.
For more information about TweetDeck on your PC, head over to TweetDeck’s official page.
Source: Android Police
*UPDATE*
Below is a video highlighting TweetDeck’s Single Sign On feature in their upcoming TweetDeck Beta for Android application.
How many of you use TweetDeck and have been anxiously awaiting the Android app? Let us know your likes/dislikes in the comments below.
