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  • Apple Tells Developers to Get Ready for iPhone Duo

    Apple has barely finished introducing the iPhone Duo, and it’s already turning its attention to the people who will make the new foldable feel useful: developers.

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  • Swift for iPhone – Submitted to the App Store

    Originally scheduled for release back in April this year, we’ve finally got word that Swift for iPhone was submitted to the AppStore on Friday 4 June. In case you’re unaware, Swift is an upcoming twitter client that promises to bring a new level of design to the rather crowded twitter client market.

    Details are still a little sketchy and there is no sign of what the app icon looks like. But from the few images that the developers have shared over on their tumbler blog it looks pretty good.

    Here’s the compete blog post listing some the features you can expect in the first release, as well as some hints at what future updates will bring to the table.

    As the app is basically ready for submission i thought i’d make a wee blog post (blame @NateBoat) about what you can expect from Swift 1.0.

    Bear in mind there are more features such as Downloadable Themes, Translation, @Gowalla, FourSquare, Venue, Archives, and @Facebook scheduled for later releases.

    Multiple Accounts with easy access
    Public Timeline and Trends
    #NowPlaying for media access and quick tweet your fav tunes
    Customizable In-App Notifications
    3 built in themes – default, dark and bubble
    Landscape mode
    In-App privacy options
    10 customizable timeline pages – searches, lists, and specific tweeters
    Drafts and Offline tweeting
    Selectable Universal Search
    Pull down and auto refresh
    Shortcuts for easy tweeting/access
    Retweet RT and via options
    Hashtag Directory
    Google Mobilizer
    In-App YouTube link playing
    In-App blocking and spam (soon to also include muting)
    Image Service support for TwitPic, TweetPhoto, Img.ly, Cl.ly, yFrog, znl.me, MobyPicture and Twitgoo (soon to include Posterous and Flickr)
    URL Shortening support for bit.ly, tiny.url, is.gd, l.pr, u.nu, rfly.me and znl.me
    Read Later support for Instapaper, Read It Later and Evernote
    Support for custom APIs
    Basic support for audio and video tweeting (full featured mode to come later)

    As big fans of everything twitter here at RazorianFly, you can be sure that once this hits the App Store we’ll be here to tell you exactly what we make of this highly anticipated client.

    [via @Swift_iPhone]