TwitLive AIR application
10 07 2008Last Sunday afternoon I was listening to The Tech Guy on twitlive.tv and when I accidentally closed its tab one too many times decided to quickly make an AIR app for it to have it available as a desktop application.
It literally took me 11 lines of code and a good 15 minutes to build. Decided to send it to Leo and was happy to hear how excited he was about the app and did a plug for it on the net@night and MacBreak Weekly podcasts.
You can use the application to watch the live video stream and see the schedule for upcoming shows. Looks like it was released just in time to see him do the 24 hour iPhone 3G launch marathon.
For those of you not familiar with Adobe AIR:
- AIR is a free cross OS runtime (Windows, Mac and Linux)
- There’s no new language to learn, it uses web technologies like HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex
- You get a lot of additional API’s like drag ‘n drop, filesystem access, network detection, clipboard access, local database support and much more that you can directly call from your code
This particular application was built in Flex with a TabNavigator component and two HTML components that are specific to AIR (the runtime has the open source WebKit embedded, the same HTML rendering engine as Safari uses).
For embedding the AIR install badge on his blog, Leo is the AIR Badge plugin for WordPress, a project I started a couple of months back.
I hope you’ll like this little application, there’s obviously a lot more you can do with this so am happy to hear any feature requests you might have. Leave a comment or drop me an email.
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Cool. Any chance you could post a screenshot?
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
Thanks Mike, just added one!
Any chance of adding “Always on Top” functionality.
Hi Chris, I just did a 1.5 release and sent it to Leo — new release includes IRC channel support, compact video mode with that “always on top” feature, application logo is much nicer as well.
Hope he’ll have it up soon, if you want to test in the meanwhile feel free to drop me an email via the contact form.
Wonderful app, its crashed on me a couple of times in a few hours, but otherwise very solid, probably the connection. I use a dock, took the TWiT logo Mike Shelby made and cut it out to work with RKLauncher if anyone needs it: [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d171/Kitsunisan/TWiT.png[/IMG]
Error #1023 - Can’t install.
Love the new features, two requests (sorry if it seems i am complaining) always on top for the main desktop window and compact mode to be the same aspect ratio as the non-compact window. Love the app and what it may become.
Thanks Kitsunisan, Leo just published the 1.5 build on his blog (the install badge still reads v1 right now).
The logo is now vector and much nicer. Will do a blog post about the new features tomorrow.
http://leoville.com/2008/07/10/1586/
comment so that I can subscribe to the thread…
Err, i meant Error #2023 - can’t install
I am not able to install, it displays error # 2032
@Jeremy - not sure what that Error #1023 is — might want to try manually uninstalling any previous version of the application. If the badge install is giving you problems you can download the .air file directly from the URL here and it should install if you have the AIR runtime installed:
http://www.peterelst.com/twitlive/TwitLive-1.5.air
@Chris - always on top feature for main window is definitely coming, the aspect ratio for the compact video mode seems to be set by stickam, trying to work around that problem.
what about compact mode, where you use the main window but kill everything but the main video?
Those of you getting that #2023 error were probably trying to install the application from this blog post — hadn’t updated it yet to the 1.5 version. It should work now.
Thanks for the feedback!
This is great. Thanks
Love the app, I just downloaded the update and noticed the minimize option is gone. I use this at work and periodically need to minimize the app while I’m doing other things and I just listen to the audio, can you fix this? Thanks & keep up the great work
Thanks for the feedback BilliamJ, the next release will have improvements with regards to resizing the application as well as better minimize and maximize options.
hey great app thanks but the lastest version does not have minimize anymore can you add that again? Thanks
Thanks Cam, the minimize feature was giving me some problems — it’ll definitely be back in the next release.
Very nice AIR App!!
great app!! my only request would be to be able to drag and resize either window. Thanks you should get a free iphone:)
very nice. need a maximize button to make the irc window nice and big. kudos to you!
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Beltane, Hank B — thanks for the feedback, as mentioned earlier in the comments the next build will have minimize, maximize buttons back and more resize options.
Fantastic app. great updates as well, keep up the great work- looking forward to seeing this grow.
Could you please post a direct link to the AIR file? The SWF installer does not detect the Linux version of the AIR runtime.
Thanks!
no live stream
Says “you have been banned” ? twitlive.tv is the same, I have to go to stickam to watch, why? UK IP ?
@Oliver - this is a direct link to the 1.5 release for those on Linux that can’t use the AIR install badge:
http://leoville.com/wp-content/uploads/twitlive-air/TwitLive.air
@Kylde - it seems to be working here, twitlive.tv is under high load with Leo’s 24 hour iPhone marathon. You can try refreshing in the app if its giving you problem or see how it goes on a less busy moment.
thx for the reply, but “banned” has always been that way for me on twitlive.tv, & I have no idea why! I’m static IP too, which makes it awkward
I’m afraid I can’t help you with that Kylde — might want to talk to the TWiT team or stickam to get your banning problem sorted.
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Dude Air applications like totally ROCK. Always have.
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Great Apps Peter
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Help, I get Error# 2032 when trying to install your app on a fresh Air installation.