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We’re still very much involved with iPhone development.

We have some other iPhone stuff going on, and we’ve begun to take on development work for iPhone apps, we’ll talk more about that at a later date though

As for MobileChat, we’re not going to disappear like last time for 6 months with no updates. We’re currently debating on how to proceed with the application.

For a full, detailed technical rundown of what exactly has been going on with MobileChat, continue after the break..

Just to answer the two questions everyone is going to have:

YES: We saw the AIM app.
YES: We’re still going to develop MobileChat.

Just as Trillian and Adium have co-existed with AIM/AOL for years, so will MobileChat. The SDK is going to let us do a lot of fun stuff, and I personally can’t wait to download it and start using it.

P.S. Looks like AOL liked our swipe/tabbing feature huh?

Themes in MobileChat v2.21

Continue reading for information about this release and a full change log.

So, when I sat down last night to rewrite the way the “Add Account” feature in MobileChat was done, I realized how absolutely terrible we were handling the Preference table. There was no “straight forward” way to UIPreferencesTable’s and further more, no simple way to implemented segmented controls into it.

So, I wrote a few classes and a helper to take care of it for me. Here’s a run down:

* UIPreferencesTableGroup — Quickly create a group of cells
* UIPreferencesSegmentedTableGroup — Extends UIPreferencesTableGroup, but adds support for Segments
* UIPreferencesController — This is the dataSource/delegate of any UIPreferenceTalbe you create.
* UIPrefHelper — You can use this even without the above classes, just contains a few quick make functions to create text fields.

Keep reading for the code and an example of the implementation…

While we wait for Conceited to update MobileChat in their repository, we’ve gone ahead and created a temporary one for everyone so they can finally use MobileChat 2.1 and get us feedback.

You can add the following repository to Installer.app and then find MobileChat located under the “twenty08″ Category:

http://twenty08.com/installer

This is definitely only a temporary solution, and we’ll be getting 2.1 on Conceited as soon as possible.

Horizontal chatting in MobileChat v2.1

Change Log:

Keep reading for more information about this release…

We’ll be release MobileChat 2.1 later this week/this weekend. It works fully on 1.1.3.

Read more after the break for a changelog, and more information about the upcoming release

Phew! Finally, MobileChat v2.0b is released!It was a pretty long road to get here, but we finally have libpurple implemented. This is really going to allow us to do some fun stuff in the future and integrate all of the “cool” features you guys have been asking for.This is definitely the biggest release since […]

Twenty08 is proud to release the latest version of MobileChat to the public. Thanks to a lot of hard work put in by Anthony and Shaun, we have what is the largest release since the programs inception just a few weeks ago.

New features are as follows:
Far more stability than the original beta.
New Official MobileChat Icon
Profile Viewing
Native Vibration Support (No External Application Calls)
Buddy List Sorting
Multiple Account Support
Settings
+ Plenty More…

Just wanted to write a quick note regarding MobileChat’s development. While I’m currently not on the development team for this project, Shaun’s been doing a great job adding features and keeping everything going smoothly. On top of that, we now have Anthony working on the project as well. They’ve been doing an awesome job and as a result, new versions of MobileChat are on their way very shortly with some cool new features:

…I hate when people tell me to “Read more after the jump…”, but just do it.